British India Analyzed: The Provincial and Revenue Establishments of Tippoo Sultaun and of Mahomedan and British Conquerors in Hindostan, Stated and Considered, Part 1 |
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adminiſtration afcertain affigned alſo amount annual aſſeſſment Aumil Aumildar Bengal beſt British India cafe cauſes CHAP Circars Commiſſioners Company Company's courſe crores cultivation cuſtom Cutchery Decan Derra diſpatches diſtrict diviſion employed eſtabliſhed eſtimated excluſive exerciſe expence fale fame Fanam filk firſt fuch Government groſs Hindoo Hindostan houſes Huzzoor increaſe induſtry intereſt Jageer Jumma Jummabundy Kelladar Keten lacks of rupees lands laſt leſs Mahomedan meaſure ment mination Moghul moſt Muſſulman muſt native neceſſary Northern Circars obſerved officers pagodas Peons perſon poffeffion preſent prime coſt proportion purchaſe purpoſes Putteels raiſing receipts regiſter rent reſpect revenue Reyuts ſale ſame ſcarcely ſeaſon ſecond ſecurity ſervants ſervice ſettlement ſeveral ſhall Shamboges ſhare ſhips ſhort ſhould ſmall ſome Soubah ſpecies ſpecified ſtandard ſtate ſtill ſtituting ſtock ſubject ſuch ſum ſupplies ſuppoſed ſyſtem territorial theſe thoſe tion trade uſed uſually villages whole whoſe yearly produce Zemindars
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Page 126 - That it shall and may be lawful for the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, to frame such Process, and make such Rules and Orders for the Execution thereof, in Suits...
Page viii - ... to a foreign phyfician and philofopher, who too haftily believed them, and afcribed to fuch a fyftem all the defolation, of which he had been a witnefs. Conqueft could have made no difference; for, either the law of the conquering nation was...
Page 93 - Act or rules made thereunder, superintend, direct, and control all acts, operations and concerns which relate to the government or revenues of India, and all grants of salaries, gratuities and allowances, and all other payments and charges, out of or on the revenues of India.
Page viii - ... by a fale of land, though not converfely $ and he always exprefles what we call property by an emphatical word implying dominion. Such dominion...
Page xxvi - ... repeats to him, in any language with, which he is converfant, the chief canons of their faith, exacting from him a folemn promife to abide by them the reft of his life. This is the whole of the ceremony. The new convert may then choofe a Gooroo, or preceptor, to teach him the language of their fcriptures, who firft gives him the alphabet to learn, and fo leads him on, by flow degrees, until he wants no further inftruction. They offered to admit me into their Society; but I declined...
Page 91 - Majesty may be pleased to appoint, of whom the two principal Secretaries of State and the Chancellor of the Exchequer shall always ex officia form three.
Page viii - ... for nothing can be more certain, than that land, rents, and goods are, in the language of all Mohammedan lawyers, property alike alienable and inheritable ; and fo far is the fovereign from having any right of property in the goods or lands of his people, that even efcheats are never appropriated to his ufe, but fall into a fund for the relief of the poor.
Page xxviii - Legislature, no notice is taken of it fo as to correft the evil. I had the honour of prefenting to this Houfe a petition from a poor...
Page viii - Indian prince may have no right, in his executive capacity, to the land of his fubjecls, yet, as the fole legijlative power, he is above control; I anfwer firmly, that Indian princes never had, nor pretended to have, an unlimited legiflative authority, but were always under the control of laws believed to be divine, with which they never claimed any power of difpenfing.
Page viii - ... without property (which, as he fays in another place, comprifes every thing that a man may fell, or give, or leave for his heirs] as mere...