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... The History of the British Empire in India - Page 517by Edward Thornton - 1842Full view - About this book
| James Mill - Hindus - 1817 - 736 pages
...heads, represent the government as having attained the last stage of oppressiveness and barbarism. " The Nazims exacted what they could from the Zemindars,...enriched themselves with the spoils of the country." The Select Committee of the House of Commons, in 1810, quoting this passage, remark ; " The whole system... | |
| James Mill - Hindus - 1820 - 588 pages
...last stage of oppressiveness and barbarism. " The Nazims exacted what they could from the Zimindars, and great farmers of the revenue ; whom they left...enriched themselves with the spoils of the country." The Select Committee of the House of Commons, in 1810, quoting this passage, remark, " The whole system... | |
| Peter Auber - Great Britain - 1828 - 216 pages
...farmers of the revenue, whom they left " at liberty to plunder all below, reserving to them" selves the prerogative of plundering them in their " turn,...enriched " themselves with the spoils of the country. The ." whole system thus resolved itself, on the part of :" the public officers, into habitual extortion... | |
| Peter Auber - Great Britain - 1828 - 228 pages
...farmers of the revenue, whom they left " at liberty to plunder all below, reserving to them" selves the prerogative of plundering them in their " turn,...enriched " themselves with the spoils of the country. The " whole system thus resolved itself, on the part of " the public officers, into habitual extortion... | |
| Christianity - 1829 - 666 pages
...below, reserving to themselves the prerogative of plundering them in their turn, when they (the fanners) were supposed to have enriched themselves with the spoils of the country. In 1772, the Government of Mr. Hastings took the entire management of the provinces into their own... | |
| George Robert Gleig - British - 1835 - 378 pages
...the revenue, whom they left at liberty to plunder all below, reserving to themselves the privilege of plundering them in their turn, when they were supposed to have enriched themselves with the spoil of the country ;" whilst of the administration of justice, it was stated, " that the regular... | |
| James Mill - Hindus - 1840 - 674 pages
...plunder all below; reserving to themselves the prerogative of plundering them in their turn, 1772. w hen they were supposed to have enriched themselves with the spoils of the country." The Select Committee of the House of Commons, in 1810, quoting this passage, remark, " The whole system... | |
| James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson - Hindus - 1848 - 670 pages
...plunder all below ; reserving to themselves the prerogative of plundering them in their turn, 1772. when they were supposed to have enriched themselves with the spoils of the country." The Select Committee of the House of Commons, in 1810, quoting this passage, remark, " The whole system... | |
| John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Ethnology - 1858 - 654 pages
...below; reserving to themselves the prerogative of plundering them in their turn, when they (the farmers) were supposed to have enriched themselves with the spoils of the country." In 1772, under Warren Hastings, the experiment was tried of letting the land for five years to the... | |
| Edward Thornton - India - 1859 - 690 pages
...law, was briefly but comprehensively described in two short passages of -л letter addressed, during an early period of Hastings's administration, by the...though sure that nothing could be retained — that ециа! avarice, armed with greater power, would compel a full surrender of the fruits of rapine,... | |
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