The Marquess CornwallisClarendon Press, 1890 - 202 頁 |
常見字詞
Adálat administration agricultural Amiens appointed army arrears assessment authority Bázár Benares Bengal Bengal and Behar British Calcutta claims collection Collectors Colonel Malleson command Commander-in-Chief Company's Cornwallis's Council Court of Directors Criminal Courts cultivation Dalhousie default Dholpur districts Dundas duty England English enquiry estates Faujdárí Gohad Government Governor Governor-General Gwalior Hát honour interest judicial jungle land landholders letter Lord Cornwallis Lord Lake Lord Wellesley Lord William Bentinck Lower Provinces Madras magistrates Maráthá Marquess ment military Mughal Empire Muhammadan Murshidábád native officers opinion Parganá Patanidár pattás payment peace Peace of Amiens permanent Perpetual Settlement position privileges proprietors Rájá Ráná regard Regulations rent Resident revenue rule Ryot Sepoys servants Sindhia Sir John Kaye Sir John Shore Sir William suit superior landlord Tálukdárs tenant-proprietor tenants tenures termed tion Tipú Treaty troops Viceroy village wallis Warren Hastings Wellesley whole writes Zamín Zamíndár
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第 95 頁 - Whether for revenue, police, criminal and civil justice, or other function, defined and set bounds to authority, created procedure by a regular system of appeal, guarded against the miscarriage of justice, and founded the Civil Service of India as it exists to this day.
第 99 頁 - I think it must be universally admitted that without a large and well-regulated body of Europeans, our hold of these valuable dominions must be very insecure. It cannot be expected that even the best of treatment would constantly conciliate the willing obedience of so vast a body of people, differing from ourselves in almost every circumstance of laws, religion, and customs...
第 78 頁 - The contempt with which they would be treated would not pass unobserved by the natives, and would preclude the possibility of their being of essential use, even if they were not deficient in character or commercial abilities, and upon the supposition that the Company could afford to pay them liberally for their services. When you add to the evils which I have described and which no man acquainted with this country will think fictitious, the jobbing that must prevail at the India House in a department...
第 108 頁 - I get on horseback just as the dawn of day begins to appear, ride on the same road and the same distance, pass the whole forenoon after my return from riding, in doing business, and almost exactly the same portion of time every day at table, drive out in a phaeton...
第 171 頁 - Buonaparte was gracious in the highest degree. He inquired particularly after his Majesty, and the state of his health ; and spoke of the British nation in terms of great respect, intimating that, as long as we remained friends, there would be no interruption of the peace of Europe.
第 121 頁 - I am sorry to say that I have every reason to believe, that at present almost all the collectors are under the name of some relation or friend deeply engaged in commerce, and, by their influence as collectors and Judges of Adaulet, they become the most dangerous enemies to the Company's interest, and the greatest oppressors of the manufactures.
第 33 頁 - The relation of a Zamindar to Government, and of a Ryot to a Zamindar, is neither that of a proprietor nor a vassal, but a compound of both. The former performs acts of authority unconnected with proprietary right : the latter has rights without real property. And the property of the one and the rights of the other are in a great measure held at discretion.
第 164 頁 - Dear sir, I beg leave to introduce to you Colonel Wesley, who is a lieutenant-colonel of my regiment. He is a sensible man, and a good officer.
第 79 頁 - An addition of views of patronage to the crown, to a certain degree, will however, in my opinion, be not only a justifiable measure, but absolutely necessary for the future good government of this country. But, according to my judgment, a renewal of the Company's charter for the management of the territorial revenues and the charter.
第 33 頁 - Much time will, I fear, elapse before we can establish a system perfectly consistent in all its parts, and before we can reduce the compound relation of a zemindar to Government, and of a ryot to a zemindar, to the simple principles of landlord and tenant.