Notwithstanding the loss of at least one-third of the inhabitants of the province, and the consequent decrease of the cultivation, the net collections of the year 1771 exceeded even those of 1768. ... It was naturally to be expected that the diminution... Annals of Rural Bengal - Page 381by Sir William Wilson Hunter - 1871 - 475 pagesFull view - About this book
| Famines - 1867 - 60 pages
...10 2 They add, however, " It was naturally to be expected that the diminution of the. revenue should have kept an equal pace with the other consequences...calamity. That it did not, was owing to its being kept up violently to its former standard," and they go on to recommend various ameliorations. 30 nient... | |
| Famines - 1874 - 428 pages
...naturally to be expected," writes Hastings himself, " that the diminution of the revenue should have kept equal pace with the other consequences of so great...its being violently kept up to its former standard." And it was this violence that eventually destroyed the landed classes of the country, and plunged Bengal... | |
| Famines - 1874 - 428 pages
...that the diminution of the revenue should have kept equal pace with the other consequences of so gieat a calamity ; that it did not was owing to its being violently kept up to its former standard." And it was this violence that eventually destroyed the landed classes of the country, and plunged Bengal... | |
| Śibanātha Śāstrī - Bengal (India) - 1907 - 318 pages
...this famine : " It was naturally to be expected that the diminution of the revenue should have kept pace with the other consequences of so great a calamity....ascertain all the means by which this was effected is not easy. . . . One tax, however, we will endeavour to describe, as it may serve to account for... | |
| Lajpat Rai (Lala) - British - 1917 - 410 pages
...exceeded even those of 1768. ... It was naturally to be expected that the diminution of the revenue should have kept an equal pace with the other consequences...owing to its being violently kept up to its former standard.7 Later on, when the East India Company had the Dewani or the revenue administration of the... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 866 pages
...but need not be quoted. ' It was naturally to be expected that the diminution of the Revenue should have kept an equal pace with the other Consequences...means by which this was effected will not be easy.' and to denounce specially an iniquitous tax called najai, which was ruthlessly levied. ' This Tax,... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 880 pages
...but need not be quoted. ' It was naturally to be expected that the diminution of the Revenue should have kept an equal pace with the other Consequences...all the means by which this was effected will not lie easy.' Hastings proceeds to dilate on the difficulties of the investigation 509 and to denounce... | |
| Charles Freer Andrews - Christian sociology - 1922 - 170 pages
..."l77l-72 .. .. 15,333,660 " It was naturally to be expected that the diminution of the revenue should have kept an equal pace with the other consequences...its being violently kept up to its former standard. " (Signed) WARREN HASTINGS," etc. The passages I have italicised will show the morality of the age... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1928 - 866 pages
...but need not be quoted. ' It was naturally to be expected that the diminution of the Revenue should have kept an equal pace with the other Consequences...means by which this was effected will not be easy.' and to denounce specially an iniquitous tax called najai, which was ruthlessly levied. ' This Tax,... | |
| Pramathanath Banerjea - Finance - 1928 - 410 pages
...naturally to be expected," observed the Committee of Secrecy, " that the diminution of the revenue should have kept an equal pace with the other consequences...its being violently kept up to its former standard." 2 to themselves the prerogative of plundering them in their dim, when they were supposed to have enriched... | |
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