Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta ...
Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta ...
Reginald Heber
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Cavendish's encampment, and were met by an escort of his suwarrs. I had long since had my eyes pretty well accustomed to the sight of shields and spears, but I have not failed to observe that, along this frontier, which has not been till of late in a settled or peaceable state, and where hard blows are still of no unfrequent occurrence, even the police troopers sit their horses better, and have a more martial air by far, than persons in the same situation in the Dooab or even in Rohilcund. I be...gin, indeed, to think better of the system on which the province of Delhi has been governed since its conquest, from all which I hear of its former state. Tins neighbourhood, for instance, is still but badly cultivated, but fifteen years ago it was as wild, I am assured, as the Terrai, as full of tygers, and with no human inhabitants but ban- ditti- Cattle-stealing still prevails to a great extent, but the Mewattees are now most of them subject either to the British Government or that of Bhurt- poor, and the security of life and property afforded them by the former, has induced many of the tribes to abandon their fortresses, to seat themselves in the plain, and cultivate the ground like honest men and good subjects, while the tranquillity of the y 2 324 BRAHMINY KERAR— HORAL.
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