The Annals of Indian Administration, Volume 4

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1860 - India
 

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Page 86 - When the kang is placed with its broad side to the party, it is to be pitched at with an ivory disk; when it is placed edgewise, it is to be struck by the disk propelled on its flat side along the surface of the ground, by the force of the middle finger of the right hand acting off the forefinger of the left. A good player can propel the disk in this way with great force and precision. The side having most hits wins. The whole is closed by a feast at the expense of the losers (Dunn 1886: 396).
Page 86 - It is played only in the spring, the players being generally young women and girls, with usually a sprinkling of men on each side. The game seems to cause great excitement, and there is great emulation between the sides. The kang is the seed of a creeper : it is nearly circular, about an inch and a half in diameter, and about three quarters of an inch thick.
Page 98 - ... capital stock, and, on the other hand, of the Guarantee or Security Fund, formed under the provisions of the Act 3 & 4 Will. IV. c. 85. The present establishment of the East India Company in England comprises 494 individuals, whose salaries and allowances amount to 134.454/.
Page 98 - Advices which have been received thereof, and also a List of the Establishment of the Secretary of State in Council, and the Salaries and Allowances payable in respect thereof...
Page 448 - All the defects of the system, inherent and incidental, all the faults which justly are to be laid at the door of either planter or ryot, by their respective opponents, may be traced originally to one bare fact, the want of adequate remuneration. It is this that mainly renders the possession of landed influence indispensable to extensive cultivation, and it is owing to this that the planter has to urge the ryot to plough and to sow, to weed, and to cut, by means little short of actual compulsion;...
Page 472 - It ought to be made quite clear to the people that our Government does not desire to assist in the education of a single child not brought to the school with the full, voluntary, unsolicited consent of its parents...
Page 100 - ... in tranquillity during a year of almost universal convulsion ; and who by his extraordinary exertions was enabled to equip troops and to prepare munitions of war for distant operations, thus mainly contributing to the recapture of Delhi, and to the subsequent successes which attended our arms ; and in testimony of the high sense entertained by the East India Company of his public character and conduct throughout a long and distinguished career, an annuity of 2,OOOL be granted to him, the same...
Page 450 - Since the ryots can sow on their lands whatever crop they like, no one can without their consent and by violence sow any other crop ; ordered therefore, that the original petition be sent to the Deputy Magistrate of Mitterhaut, in' order that he may send policemen to the ryots...
Page 451 - It is not too much to say, that had all magistrates held the scales in even balance, a cultivation of the character which we have clearly shown indigo to be, would not have gone on for such a length of time. The real truth we take to be that, if anything, the bias of the English magistrate has been unconsciously towards his countrymen, whom he has asked to his own table, or met in the hunting field, or whose houses he has personally visited.
Page 453 - ... the sudden failure of an unsound system, which had grown up silently for years, to the officials or missionaries who told the people that they were free agents. If it could be said with truth that greased cartridges were only the proximate cause of a rebellion which had been silently gathering for years, it may be said with even more truth that written or spoken words widely circulated, and only pointing out to the ryot what was perfectly correct in all essentials, namely, that it was optional...

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