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Common terms and phrases
aboriginal administration ancient appear APPX Aryan Bahar banditti Beerbhoom bhoom Bishenpore Board of Revenue Brahmans Buddhism Burdwan Calcutta Gazette capital caste civil civilisation coin coinage collected Collector to Board Commercial Resident Company Company's Consultation Court of Directors crop cultivation currency dated deity district English famine frontier Government grain harvest highlands hill-men Hindu hundred India Inflecting inhabitants Jama Khan John Shore jungle justice Keating king labour land-tax landholder language Letter Lord Cornwallis Lower Bengal lowland magistrate Manu Mārāng Buru ment Middle Land military Moorshedabad Mountain Mussulman native Nawab never officers Orissa passed plunder Plural police population Prakrit present President and Council prince province race Rajah reign religion remained rent reports rice Rig Veda root rupees rural ryuts Saheb Sanskrit Santal Sepoys settlement Siva Soory strike thousand tion treasury tribes troops Veda village Warren Hastings whole word worship Zemindars
Popular passages
Page 26 - All through the stifling summer of 1770 the people went on dying. The husbandmen sold their cattle; they sold their implements of agriculture ; they devoured their seed-grain ; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found...
Page 120 - Bear him, carry him ; let him, with all his faculties complete, go to the world of the righteous. Crossing the dark valley which spreadeth boundless around him, let the unborn soul ascend to heaven. Wash the feet of him who is stained with sin ; let him go upwards with cleansed feet. Crossing the gloom, gazing with wonder in many directions, let the unborn soul go up to heaven.
Page 28 - Still fresh in memory's eye the scene I view, The shrivelled limbs, sunk eyes, and lifeless hue ; Still hear the mother's shrieks and infant's moans, Cries of despair and agonizing moans.
Page 263 - The form of the ancient constitution of the Province compared with the present;' ' an account of its possessors or rulers, the order of their succession, and the peculiar customs or privileges which they or their people have established or enjoyed...
Page 418 - The .scene of misery that intervened, and still continues, shocks humanity too much to bear description. Certain it is that in several parts the living have fed on the dead, and the number that has perished in those provinces that have suffered most ia calculated to have been within these few months aá G tu IG of the whole inhabitants.
Page 381 - Notwithstanding the loss of at least one-third of the inhabitants of the province, and the consequent decrease of the cultivation, the net collections of the year 1771 exceeded even those of 1768. ... It was naturally to be expected that the diminution of the revenue should have kept an equal pace with the other consequences of so great a calamity. That it did not was owing to its being violently kept up to its former standard.
Page 382 - The nazims exacted what they could from the zemindars and great farmers of the revenue, whom they left at liberty to plunder all below, reserving to themselves the prerogative of plundering them in their turn when they were supposed — to have enriched themselves with the spoils of the country.
Page 216 - The village government is purely patriarchal. Each hamlet has an original founder (the ManjhiHanan), who is regarded as the father of the community. He receives divine honours in the sacred grove, and transmits his authority to his descendants.
Page 44 - ... districts that could best spare it, and carried to those which most urgently needed it. Not only were prices equalized so far as possible throughout the stricken parts, but the publicity given to the high rates in Lower Bengal induced large shipments from the upper provinces, and the chief seat of the trade became unable to afford accommodation for landing the vast stores of grain brought down the river. Rice poured into the affected districts from all parts, — railways, canals, and roads vigorously...
Page 381 - One Tax, however, we will endeavour to describe, as it may serve to account for the Equality which has been preserved in the past Collections, and to which it has principally contributed. It is called Najay...