The Thackerays in India : And Some Calcutta Graves
The book The Thackerays in India : And Some Calcutta Graves was written by author Hunter, William Wilson, Sir, 1840-1900 Here you can read free online of The Thackerays in India : And Some Calcutta Graves book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Thackerays in India : And Some Calcutta Graves a good or bad book?
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The Company had^ in fact, ceased to desire from them the military service by which they held their territories imder the Mughal Emperors. What it wanted was revenue, not troops. Such of the ancient border Houses as could not accommodate themselves to the change had, up to 1793, been from time to time dispossessed of their estates, while their personal property was sold for arrears of the land-tax. The Permanent Setdement in that year, although giving to solvent proprietors a status which they n...ever before enjoyed, provided a sharp remedy for those who still insisted on THACKERAY'S FATHER IN BENGAL 153 Spending their rental on military pomp instead of paying the due quota into the District treasury. Under its provisions, estates which fell into arrears were sold by public auction. This was the condition of Birbhum when Rich- mond Thackeray took charge of it in 1 803. One of the questions he had to deal with was the subdivision of his vast frontier jurisdiction — far too large for eflfective control by a single chief.
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