Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, Volume 4Bombay Geographical Society, 1840 List of members in v. 1-2, 9-10, 15-18. |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ahmednuggur Akbar Anajee ancient Angady ascends assessment Baypoor river bazars beegah Beejapoor Bhavany river Brahmins Buddagers bungalow Calicut Cannanore capital cattle coast cocoanut Coimbatoor Colonel cultivated valleys descends and crosses deshums district dry grain Dukhun east exact extensive fields forest former geographical ghauts gross produce half miles heights high road hills Hindu India inhabitants interior Khundee king Konkun Koondahs Koorg land latter left bank levied Mahomedan Mahratta Mahratta empire Malabar Manantody measure Meeras ment moplah mountain streams Mowje muhals Mulik Umbur Munnar Mysore Nairs native Nellumboor Nizamshahee nullah officers pagoda Pass Paulghaut Peshwa plain poligars Ponany population portion Portuguese prince principal proceeds province quarter miles rent rental revenue rice ridge runs rupees ryot Salsette Seevajee slopes soil square miles summit survey talook Tellicherry tenure thence three miles tion town tract trees village whole winds wood zumeendars
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Página 20 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Página 21 - And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep : and ye...
Página 42 - Yet this truly benevolent purpose, fashioned with great care and deliberation, has, to our painful knowledge, subjected almost the whole of the Lower Classes throughout these provinces to most grievous oppression; an oppression too, so guaranteed by our pledge, that we are unable to relieve the sufferers...
Página 148 - Guntoor, throughout the whole of the war from 1790 to 1792, in Mysore, and in the countries ceded to the Nizam by the peace of 1792 ; and from that period engaged in the first...
Página 188 - ... this country, during a long course of years, has been too much precipitation in attempting to better the condition of the people, with hardly any knowledge of the means by which it was to be accomplished, and indeed without seeming to think that any other than good intentions were necessary. It is a dangerous system of government in a country, of which our knowledge is very imperfect, to be constantly urged by the desire of settling every thing permanently. To do every thing in a hurry, and in...
Página 1 - ... and want of experience maketh apt unto innovations. That which wisdom did first begin, and hath been with good men long continued, challengeth allowance of them that succeed, although it plead for itself nothing. That which is new, if it promise not much, doth fear condemnation before trial; till trial, no man doth acquit or trust it, what good soever it pretend and promise. So that in this kind there are few things known to be good, till such time as they grow to be ancient.
Página 20 - Levites redeem at any time. 33. And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee ; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34. But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
Página 72 - ... had not even the capacity of purchasing lands or goods ; but the lord on such purchase, might enter into the one, and seize the other for his own use. And as for the land which they held in villanage, though Lord Coke says it was not only held at the will of the lord, but according to the custom of the manor ; yet, in ancient times, if the lord ejected them, they were manifestly without remedy.
Página 67 - ... of culture, or to the description of the article cultivated. The government share was then commuted for a money payment ; and in time, when a measurement, classification, and registry had taken place, the regulated assessment was fixed at a fourth of the whole produce of each field throughout the year*, and thus became the permanent rent of the land.
Página 28 - The tythe itself is of the exact nature of the Indian contribution ; and the inference that this or some separate portion of the crop was payable in kind to the sovereign, appears to be supported by the existence of a special officer for superintending the tribute, § and another for " the storehouses in the fields,|| in the cities, in the villages, and in the castles ; " an enumeration which seems to shew that a portion of the crop was laid up for the sovereign in every field, village, and city.