The Law And Custom of Slavery in British India in a Series of Letters to Thomas
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He adds : " All the domestics are * Hamilton, Vol. I. P. 515. F Hamilton, Vol. II. Pp. 431, 432. \ McCosh's Topography of Assam, p. 129. Calcutta, 1837. 108 SLAVERY slaves, and they are numerous, every man of rank having several, mostly. Procured among the necessitous, who mort- gage themselves. Some were exported, and before the British predominance, about one hundred of pure caste were annually sold in Bengal. The girls were chiefly bought by professional prostitutes, and cost from twelve to ...fifteen rupees. A Cooch boy/' (that is, a native of Cooch Behar, a dependent principality situated at the nori! ern extremity of the Bengal district of Kungpoor, ) "cost twenty-five rupees, a Kolita " (that is, a member of the abo- riginal priesthood of Cooch Behar) "fifty; slaves of impure tribes were sold to the Garrows. "* The Bengal government has recently called on its medi- cal servants for reports on the topography of the districts in which they carry on their professional labors; and one of the most valuable of the productions which have been thus elicited is Dr.
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