The History of British India volume 7
The History of British India volume 7
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Strachey ; An- swers to Queries; Judicial Records, ii. 70. At Nadiya, two thousand and seventy-one persons were apprehended as Dakoits from the 20th of May, 1808, to the 31st of May, 1809 ; of whom no less than one thousand fight hundred and twenty-eight had been taken up as men of bad charac- ter and on vague suspicion, forty-four only had been convicted before the Court of Circuit during two sessions, three hundred and sixty-nine had been released by (lie magistrate, two hundred and sixty-eig...ht acquitted by 406 HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA.
BOOK I. It was argued in defence of this procedure, that, _^m_^_ although the acquitted persons might not have been concerned in the actual offence, yet they were cog- nisant of its perpetration, and neither took any steps to prevent it, nor to bring the perpetrators to jus- tice ; that violent diseases required strong remedies ; and that it was better that a few innocent persons should suffer than the whole community live in alarm and danger. Equally exceptionable was the subor- dinate agency by which the objects of the magis- trates were in most instances obtained the em- ployment of hired spies or Goyendas : it was ad- mitted that the system was liable to abuse ; that the Goyendas were unprincipled miscreants, who made their power the means of extortion, and who hesitated not to sacrifice innocent individuals t
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Strachey ; An- swers to Queries; Judicial Records, ii. 70. At Nadiya, two thousand and seventy-one persons were apprehended as Dakoits from the 20th of May, 1808, to the 31st of May, 1809 ; of whom no less than one thousand fight hundred and twenty-eight had been taken up as men of bad charac- ter and on vague suspicion, forty-four only had been convicted before the Court of Circuit during two sessions, three hundred and sixty-nine had been released by (lie magistrate, two hundred and sixty-eig...ht acquitted by 406 HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA.
BOOK I. It was argued in defence of this procedure, that, _^m_^_ although the acquitted persons might not have been concerned in the actual offence, yet they were cog- nisant of its perpetration, and neither took any steps to prevent it, nor to bring the perpetrators to jus- tice ; that violent diseases required strong remedies ; and that it was better that a few innocent persons should suffer than the whole community live in alarm and danger. Equally exceptionable was the subor- dinate agency by which the objects of the magis- trates were in most instances obtained the em- ployment of hired spies or Goyendas : it was ad- mitted that the system was liable to abuse ; that the Goyendas were unprincipled miscreants, who made their power the means of extortion, and who hesitated not to sacrifice innocent individuals t
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by James Mill to read onlineMoreLess
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