The Peasantry of Bengal: Being a View of Their Condition Under the Hindu, the Mahomedan, and English Rule, and a Consideration of the Means Calculated to Improve Their Future ProspectsThacker, Spink & Company, 1874 - 237페이지 |
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60 페이지 - I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms For him that grazes or for him that farms; But when amid such pleasing scenes I trace The poor laborious natives of the place, And see the mid-day sun, with fervid ray, On their bare heads and dewy temples play; While some, with feebler heads and fainter hearts, Deplore their fortune, yet sustain their parts: Then shall I dare these real ills to hide In tinsel trappings of poetic pride?
17 페이지 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds: The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
207 페이지 - ... a tyranny often so excessive as to deprive the peasant and artisan of the necessaries of life, and leave them to die of misery and exhaustion — a tyranny owing to which those wretched people either have no children at all, or have them only to endure the agonies of starvation, and to die at a tender age — a tyranny, in fine, that drives the cultivator of the soil from his wretched home to some neighbouring state, in hopes...
207 페이지 - As the ground is seldom tilled otherwise than by compulsion, and as no person is found willing and able to repair the ditches and canals for the conveyance of water, it happens that the whole country is badly cultivated, and a great part rendered unproductive from the want of irrigation.
208 페이지 - Why should I toil for a tyrant who may come to-morrow and lay his rapacious hands upon all I possess and value, without leaving me, if such should be his humour, the means to drag on my miserable existence ? ' — The Timariots, Governors, and Revenue contractors, on their part reason in this manner : ' Why should the neglected state of this land create uneasiness in our minds ? and why should we expend our own money and time to render it fruitful ? We may be deprived of it...
34 페이지 - Exceptions to be an Accumulation of the Grievance ; since it is true that the Courts of Adawlut are open to the Complaints of all Men ; yet, it is only the rich, or the vagabond Part of the People, who can afford to travel so far for Justice ; and if the industrious Labourer is called from the farthest Part of the Province to answer their Complaints, and wait the tedious Process of the Courts, to which they are thus made amenable, the Consequences in many Cases will be more ruinous and oppressive,...
207 페이지 - This debasing state of slavery obstructs the progress- of trade and influences the manners and mode of life of every individual. There can be little encouragement to engage in commercial pursuits, when the success with which they may be attended, instead of...
207 페이지 - ... tyranny, in fine, that drives the cultivator of the soil from his wretched home to some neighbouring state, in hopes of finding milder treatment, or to the army, where he becomes the servant of some trooper. As the ground is seldom tilled otherwise than by compulsion, and as no person is found willing and able to repair the ditches and canals...
52 페이지 - It being the duty of the ruling power to protect all classes of people, and more particularly those who from their situation are most helpless, the Governor-General in Council, will, whenever he may deem it proper, enact such Regulations as he may think necessary for the protection and welfare of the dependent talookdars, ryots, and other cultivators of the soil...
51 페이지 - was there a measure conceived in a purer spirit of generous humanity and disinterested justice, than the plan for the Permanent Settlement in the Lower Provinces.