British India Analyzed: The Provincial and Revenue Establishments of Tippoo Sultaun and of Mahomedan and British Conquerors in Hindostan, Stated and Considered. In Three Parts. ... |
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British India Analyzed: The Provincial and Revenue Establishments ..., Volume 1 Charles Francis Greville No preview available - 2016 |
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abuſes Adaulet adminiſtration alſo Anſwer Bahar bank becauſe Bengal beſt Board of Control British India Calcutta Canongoe cauſes cent CHAP Circars circumſtances collect Collector Company Company's confideration conſequence Court cuſtoms Dewannee Directors diſtricts diviſion duty eſtabliſhed eſtimate excluſive exiſt expence falt fame fettlement fince firſt fuch fufficient Government Governor Grant Houſe Ibid increaſe inſtitution intereſt inveſtigation inveſtment iſſued jurifdiction justice lands late Arrangements leſs Lord Lord Clive Lord Cornwallis Macpherson manufacture meaſure ment Moghul monopoly moſt muſt Nabob native neceffity neceſſary obſerved occafion opinion oppreffion pany's Parliament period perſons poſſible Pottah preſent preſent act principle profit propoſed proprietors publiſhed purpoſe Queſtion reaſon regulation rents reſpect revenue Reyuts rupees ſay ſecurity ſervants ſervice ſeveral ſhall ſhort ſhould Sir John Macpherson Sir John Shore Sketch of late ſome Soubah ſtand ſtate ſtatement ſtill ſubject ſuch Sunderbunds ſupply ſuppoſed ſyſtem theſe thoſe tion trade venue Zemindars
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Page 316 - Directors flare with aftonul1ment at this increafe ; you will ftare too, my dear Sir, as a proprietor. — Methinks I hear them and you cry out, What the devil became of this difference the laft year, as it muft have been collected, beyond the...
Page 411 - Resolution of leaving out the notification to the land-holders that if the settlement shall be approved by the Court of Directors it will become permanent, and no further alteration of the jumma take place at the expiration of the ten years.
Page 318 - Soubahdaiy, than that we have already obtained of the Purgunnahs ; but the times are not yet ripe for fo great a grafp, nor have we fufficient ftrength to hold it; though it is certain, were we Soubahs of the provinces, the emperor would regularly receive more than double the revenues thefe provinces ever produced to him; and the Eajt-India Company become, in a fhort time, the richeft body of fubjects in the world. • I am, Sir, &c. JZH The END of the FIRST PART, Mh \ \ *• *• f r...
Page 318 - Z may, •may, in a future favourable conjuncture, be well worth confideration ; at prefcnt we have but to afk and have, a more eafy acquifition of the Suba.dary than that we have already obtained of the Purgunnahs...
Page 318 - Purgunnahs, had been difmifled, at the inftigation of the new operators. I fent privately for one or two of the moft creditable of them, and enquired into the caufe of their difmiffion ; and this brought on an opening of the whole fcene, and gave me fufficient foundation for forming my letter of the nth of June : had that failed in bringing the lands to a public fale to the...
Page 442 - Supreme Court shall not have or exercise any Jurisdiction in any Matter concerning the Revenue, or concerning any Act or Acts ordered or done in the Collection thereof, according to the Usage and Practice of the Country, or the Regulations of the Governor-General and Council.
Page 317 - I muft clear up to you a circumftance that may poffibly be caufe of wonder to you, viz. by what means I arrived at their real value. In the firft place, I had long and full conviction that the fame fyftem of frauds and chicane ran through every Zemindary of the provinces; and from a general knowledge of the countries granted to us, it appeared to me moft...
Page 329 - ... estimate. The way is this — the land is measured with the crops standing, and which are estimated by inspection. Those who are conversant in the business say that the calculation can be made with the greatest exactness.
Page 316 - ... on an average, of 46 per cent. at their firft fair fale, was proof enough of former frauds, the more fo, as this advance encreafed every year, and the other branches in proportion. As your former Zemindars could not juftly be deemed culpable in that cafe, from the frequent changes in the poft; fo in the prefent, no blame properly falls on your collector, the truft being too extenfive...
Page 328 - Soobah for the hnfbandman and government to divide the crops. Grain is always cheap, and the produce of the lands is determined by Nuffuk('7).