 | George Robert Gleig - India - 1830 - 578 pages
...of Mussulman rule. Cuddapah, 25th February, 1801. THE ten years of Mogul Government in Cuddapah, has been almost as destructive as so many years of war...last year, a mutinous unpaid army was turned loose durmg the sowing season, to collect their pay from the villages. They drove off, and sold the cattle,... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - India - 1830 - 562 pages
...of Mussulman rule. Cuddapah, 25th February, 1801. THE ten years of Mogul Government in Cuddapah, has been almost as destructive as so many years of war ; and this last year, a mutinous unpaid army wağ turned loose during the sowing season, to collect their pay from the villages. They drove off,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Munro - Chennai (India) - 1881 - 504 pages
...forced levies from the overtaxed inhabitants of the country. Munro wrote : This last year a mutinous army was turned loose during the sowing season to collect their pay from the villagers. They drove off and sold the cattle, extorted money by torture from every man who fell into... | |
 | Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot - Generals - 1889 - 262 pages
...forced levies from the overtaxed inhabitants of the country. Mnnro wrote : This last year a mutinous army was turned loose during the sowing season to collect their pay from the villagers. They drove off and sold the cattle, extorted money by torture from every man who fell into... | |
 | Henry Morris - Anglo-Indians - 1890 - 172 pages
...description of the rule which was about to be displaced : " The ten years of Mogul Government in Cuddapah has been almost as destructive as so many years of war...collect their pay from the villages. They drove off and^sold the cattle, extorted money by torture from every man who fell into their hands, and plundered... | |
 | Henry Morris - Biography - 1908 - 282 pages
...about to be * Gleig's Life, p. 156. displaced : " The ten years of Mogul Government in Cuddapah has been almost as destructive as so many years of war...during the sowing season, to collect their pay from the villagers. They drove off and sold the cattle, extorted money by torture from every man who fell into... | |
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They drove off and sold the cattle, extorted money by torture from every man who fell into their hands, and plundered the houses and shops of those who fled ; by which means the usual cultivation has been greatly diminished. 