Selections from the State Papers of the Governors-general of India, Том 3Sir George Forrest B. H. Blackwell, 1926 |
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Страница 201 - I am also convinced that, failing the claim of right of the zemindars, it would be necessary for the public good to grant a right of property in the soil to them, or to persons of other descriptions.
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