Calcutta Review, Volume 9University of Calcutta, 1848 |
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Page 8
... means of forcing the soil to pay its tribute in places not exactly suited to the rice crop . Date gardens are highly valued not for the fruit but for the juice , and when the rice crop and the mahajan fail , the Ryot is only too glad to ...
... means of forcing the soil to pay its tribute in places not exactly suited to the rice crop . Date gardens are highly valued not for the fruit but for the juice , and when the rice crop and the mahajan fail , the Ryot is only too glad to ...
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... added to some districts , as the revenue arising from Khass and re- sumed Mahals , lately settled , the exact amount of which we have not the means of estimating . Several points also THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES . 21.
... added to some districts , as the revenue arising from Khass and re- sumed Mahals , lately settled , the exact amount of which we have not the means of estimating . Several points also THE PLAINS OF THE LOWER GANGES . 21.
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have not the means of estimating . Several points also require a little explanation , in order to relieve whole districts from the charge of sterility . Burdwan , it will be seen , stands at the head of the list , distancing all its ...
have not the means of estimating . Several points also require a little explanation , in order to relieve whole districts from the charge of sterility . Burdwan , it will be seen , stands at the head of the list , distancing all its ...
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... means of fraud or oppression . The curse of ignorance as to man's pro- per rights , and a demoralizing disobedience to lawful autho- rity , are more prominent in a village on the very outskirts of a district , than in those next the ...
... means of fraud or oppression . The curse of ignorance as to man's pro- per rights , and a demoralizing disobedience to lawful autho- rity , are more prominent in a village on the very outskirts of a district , than in those next the ...
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... means to snap the arrows separately . Burke saw this sixty years ago and set down cause and effect to their true sources , when he said that servile concealment called forth tyrannous coercion . At last however the battle is decided ...
... means to snap the arrows separately . Burke saw this sixty years ago and set down cause and effect to their true sources , when he said that servile concealment called forth tyrannous coercion . At last however the battle is decided ...
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