The Calcutta Review, Volume 14University of Calcutta, 1850 |
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Page 11
... never joined in arms against us , we had a mixed and turbulent population - Sikhs , Afghans , and Hindús — all lately our enemies , and all hating and keeping aloof from their conquerors . BRITISH ADMINISTRATION OF SCINDE . 11.
... never joined in arms against us , we had a mixed and turbulent population - Sikhs , Afghans , and Hindús — all lately our enemies , and all hating and keeping aloof from their conquerors . BRITISH ADMINISTRATION OF SCINDE . 11.
Page 12
... never been vested in any other individual in India , or elsewhere . Most important and various were his duties . As the commander of a large division of the Army - and a commander too , who was not only so in name , but under whose keen ...
... never been vested in any other individual in India , or elsewhere . Most important and various were his duties . As the commander of a large division of the Army - and a commander too , who was not only so in name , but under whose keen ...
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... never been brought into the calculation , and were charged in contingent bills . These officers and watchmen , who were nothing less than a permanent gang of thieves fixed on the country , amounted on the lowest scale to 40,000 men ...
... never been brought into the calculation , and were charged in contingent bills . These officers and watchmen , who were nothing less than a permanent gang of thieves fixed on the country , amounted on the lowest scale to 40,000 men ...
Page 36
... never given at all . The evil practice , so common un- der native governments , was freely adopted in Scinde , viz . that of granting provisional orders , that , if the Kardar on enquiry should find so and so to be the case , then he ...
... never given at all . The evil practice , so common un- der native governments , was freely adopted in Scinde , viz . that of granting provisional orders , that , if the Kardar on enquiry should find so and so to be the case , then he ...
Page 39
... never tracked for twenty yards in his life . His only course was at once to proceed to the next village , and throw the responsibility on the zemindar . What was originally , and is , in itself , an admirable preventative of crime ...
... never tracked for twenty yards in his life . His only course was at once to proceed to the next village , and throw the responsibility on the zemindar . What was originally , and is , in itself , an admirable preventative of crime ...
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Affghanistan Affghans Agra amongst army attack Bala Hissar Bamian Bengal Brahmans brigade British Cabul Calcutta Candahar cantonments Captain Hervey Cawnpore character Chiefs civil Clive Collectors command course Court creation cultivators detachment district ditto Dost Mahomed duties earth effect Elphinstone enemy English Envoy European existed fact favour feeling force former Ghiljies Government Governor-General guns hand Herat Hindi Hindu India influence instruction Kalhana Kashmir Khan Khiva labour land landholders Lord Lord Auckland Macnaghten Mahomed Akbar matter means measures ment military Mohun Lal Namuh native Nawab North Western Provinces object occupation officers pass Pergunnah period Persian political portion position possession present proprietors Provinces Rajput reason received regarding regiment render respect revenue rupees Sale Sanskrit schools Scinde settlement Shah Shuja Shah's sipahis tion tribes troops Urdu village whilst whole Yar Mahomed Zeila