 | Asia - 1835 - 612 pages
...which she will again violate on the first opportune occasion. Sense of shame or feelings of honour have no place in the breast of a Jat, and the same...expense and trouble they have incurred in the search for her. Debtors and revenue defaulters, who abscond, and find protection in a foreign state, are seldom... | |
 | Henry Steinbach - Punjab (India) - 1845 - 196 pages
...absconded, and will take them back as often as they can get them, bickering even for the children the women may have had by her paramour, as some recompense for...expense and trouble they have incurred in the search for her. "There exists no prohibition against the Suttee. In all cases they are understood to be willing... | |
 | Henry Steinbach - Punjab (India) - 1845 - 274 pages
...will take them back as often as they can get them, bickering even for the children the women may liave had by her paramour, as some recompense for her temporary...expense and trouble they have incurred in the search for her. "There exists no prohibition against the Suttee. In all cases they are understood to be willing... | |
 | Jammu and Kashmir (India) - 1846 - 238 pages
...absconded, and will take them back as often as they can get them, bickering even for the children the women may have had by her paramour, as some recompense for...expense and trouble they have incurred in the search for her. " There exists no prohibition against the Suttee. In all cases they are understood to be willing... | |
 | Henry Thoby Prinsep - Punjab (India) - 1846 - 784 pages
...still be enough remaining. Implying that he was a stranger to shame and could survive disgrace. porary absence, and for the expense and trouble they have incurred in the search for her.* Debtors and Defaulters. — Debtors and revenue defaulters who abscond, and find protection in... | |
 | Philip William Perfitt - 1861 - 430 pages
...first opportune occasion. Sense of shame, or feelings of honour, have no place in the breast of a Jât, and the same may be said of men of other low tribes....as some recompense for her temporary absence, and the expense and trouble incurred. Debtors and revenue defaulters who abscond, and find protection in... | |
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... violate on the first opportune occasion. Sense of shame or feelings of honour have no place in the breast of a Jat, and the same may be said of men of other low tribes. They will make strenuous exertions for recovery of their wives after they have... 