 It had also the additional Evil attending it, in common with every other Variation from the regular Practice, that it afforded an opportunity to the Farmers and Shicdars to levy other Contributions on the People under color of it, and even to encrease...  Annals of Rural Bengal - Page 382by Sir William Wilson Hunter - 1871 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Auber - 1837 - 750 pages
...contributions on the people, and even to increase it to whatever magnitude they pleased, being themselves the judges of the loss sustained, and of the proportion which the inhabitants were to pay to replace it. It has been observed, with reference to the then state of the Revenue System, " that seven years had... | |
 | Peter Auber - Great Britain - 1837 - 752 pages
...contributions on the people, and even to increase it to whatever magnitude they pleased, being themselves the judges of the loss sustained, and of the proportion which the inhabitants were to pay to replace it. It has been observed, with reference to the then state of the Revenue System, " that seven years had... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - India - 1862 - 910 pages
...contributions on the people, and even to increase it to whatever magnitude they pleased, being themselves the judges of the loss sustained, and of the proportion...which the inhabitants were to pay to replace it." It was thus, when the inhabitants were only recovering from a famine, the evils of which must have... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - Great Britain - 1910 - 372 pages
...Inhabitants. The Tax not being levied by any Fixed Rate or Standard, fell heaviest upon the wretched Survivora of those Villages which had suffered the greatest...to the Industry of the People, as to impoverish the Eevenue in the last Degree, when their former savings by which it was supported were gone. Though 7... | |
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