Examination of the Principles and Policy of the Government of British India: Embracing a Particular Inquiry Concerning the Tenure of Lands, Strictures on the Administration of Justice and Suggestions for the Improvement of the Character and Condition of the Natives in GeneralHurst, Chance and Company, 1829 - 184 страници |
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
acquire adopted advocates agriculture application assertions assessment Baramahal become benefit Bengal body Bombay Bramins British British India capital Chaplin circumstances civil collectors condition considerable corporation Court cultivation daurs Deccan doubt duty Edinburgh Review effect England equal estates existence fields France gentry greater Guzerat hereditary Hindoo law honour human ignorance improvement increase individuals innovation Judges justice labour landed property landlords Lord Cornwallis Lord Cornwallis's Lord William Bentinck Madras Majesty's Government means Meeras Meerasdaurs ment Mill Mill's Miras Mirasdaurs moral nation natives of India never occupied officers operation opinion oppression owners Patail perhaps plough population portion possess poverty prietors primogeniture principles produce prosperity prove provinces rank render respect revenue rupees Ryotwarry Ryotwaur plan Ryotwaur system saleable says scheme sentiments servants Sir Thomas Munro soil subjects tenants Thackeray thing Thomas says tion tivated true truth under-tenants vernment village waste land Zemindaurs
Популярни откъси
Страница 63 - It is by means of an additional capital only, that the undertaker of any work can either provide his workmen with better machinery, or make a more proper distribution of employment among them.
Страница 139 - Concerning the materials of seditions, it is a thing well to be considered — for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it,) is to take away the matter of them ; for if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall como that shall set it on fire.
Страница 123 - observe how very easily they ah1 acquire the " requisite qualifications for the duties which we " are pleased to entrust to them. I would ask, " who can doubt that they would very shortly, if " not depressed and dispirited, become at least " equal to the functions they performed before " we came among them ? " — " I confess it is my " wish, though possibly I may be blamed for " expressing it, not only to have the authority " of the natives as judges extended, but to see " them, if possible, enjoy...
Страница 95 - Europe is there such a vast body of proprietors ; and in no civilized European country, with the single exception of Ireland, is there so large a proportion of the population directly engaged in the cultivation, or rather, we should say, the torture of the soil. And yet the system is only in its infancy. Should it be supported in its present vigour for another half century, la grande nation will certainly...
Страница 177 - One of the greatest disadvantages of our Government in India is its tendency to lower or destroy the higher ranks of society, to bring them all too much to one level, and by depriving them of their former weight and influence, to render them less useful instruments in the internal administration of the country.
Страница 104 - ... respected, and as of all institutions it is the fittest to support the pride of family distinctions, it is still likely to endure for many centuries. In every other respect, nothing can be more contrary to the real interest of a numerous family than a right which, in order to enrich one, beggars all the rest of the children *. Entails are the natural consequences of the law of primogeniture.
Страница 144 - The total want of energy and spirit, the poverty and ignorance of the people, compose, in my opinion, the strength of our Government.
Страница 20 - But in India, that haughty spirit, independence and deep thought which the possession of great wealth sometimes gives ought to be suppressed. They are directly averse to our power and interest.
Страница 89 - Three parties shared in the produce of the soil. That party to any useful purpose most properly deserves the name of proprietor, to whom the principal share of the produce for ever belongs. To him who derives the smallest share of the produce the title of owner least of all belongs.
Страница 6 - There can be no doubt, that, by increasing every year the proportion of the population which you employ in raising food, and diminishing every year the proportion employed in every thing else, you may go on increasing food as fast as population increases, till the labour of a man...