India Tracts: Containing a Description of the Jungle Terry Districts, Their Revenues, Trade, and Government: With a Plan for the Improvement of Them. Also an History of the Origin and Progress of the Sicks
India Tracts: Containing a Description of the Jungle Terry Districts, Their Revenues, Trade, and Government: With a Plan for the Improvement of Them. Also an History of the Origin and Progress of the Sicks
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 Excerpt: ...it has been described. As to the noise his name formerly made, it arose more from the depredations of his Baboos, than from any thing very distinguished SECTION 4. tinguiflied on his part, though he certainly does Dot want for courage, as has been sometimes thought.--The flatteries of his followers, and his success ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 Excerpt: ...it has been described. As to the noise his name formerly made, it arose more from the depredations of his Baboos, than from any thing very distinguished SECTION 4. tinguiflied on his part, though he certainly does Dot want for courage, as has been sometimes thought.--The flatteries of his followers, and his success against Golab Roy, and the Purgunnah detachments, certainly made him form a very undue opinion of his own and his followers military powers, of which he is now very sensible. That he was raised to the head of so great a confederacy, was partly owing to his character, partly to extensive family connexions, but more than all, to the persecution he underwent from Government, and the scheme of collecting his country Khass, which the other Zemindars thought was only prefatory to a similar treatment of their countries also, and that therefore, the cause was as much theirs, as it was his;--a conclusion so natural, that I don't see how any other could have been drawn from these premises, and which might afford a leflbn to all Governments, if such were wanting;--never to furnish any general principle, any point of union, which may serve as the standard for a confederacy to fly to, with the external appearance of only being struggling against oppression, and the invasion of their just rights. As to the rest of his character, he is liberal to his inferiors, even to extravagance, and so affable and polite in his behaviour to them, that they bear him the highest affection: he is expensive and addicted to pleasure; but I cannot conclude without adding to the list of his virtues, sincerity and gratitude, which he has a larger share of than falls to most of his countrymen whom I have seen. BABOO SECTION 4. BABOO ROOPNARAINDEO, --the son of Jagernaut Deo; he canno...
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