...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

..."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...

...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,...

...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...