The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 4John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Great Britain |
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... demand was entirely exceptional , but in the end he acquiesced in Hastings's policy . The same demand was made in the two following years . Chait Singh naturally , following the invariable practice in the East , protested against these ...
... demand was entirely exceptional , but in the end he acquiesced in Hastings's policy . The same demand was made in the two following years . Chait Singh naturally , following the invariable practice in the East , protested against these ...
Page 298
... demand for troops , and , on the ground that the demand was not met , proceed to levy a fine of £ 500,000 . There seems no doubt , as Sir Alfred Lyall points out and as Hastings ' own language shows , that the governor - general had ...
... demand for troops , and , on the ground that the demand was not met , proceed to levy a fine of £ 500,000 . There seems no doubt , as Sir Alfred Lyall points out and as Hastings ' own language shows , that the governor - general had ...
Page 466
... demand in average years left the cultivators little more than a bare subsistence , it could not be paid in bad years . The revenue underlings and the village officers opposed a system which tended to curtail the sources of illegitimate ...
... demand in average years left the cultivators little more than a bare subsistence , it could not be paid in bad years . The revenue underlings and the village officers opposed a system which tended to curtail the sources of illegitimate ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Portuguese suzerainty over Ormuz | 12 |
Later governors | 19 |
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