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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, in 1849-50
Sleeman, Sir William Henry
Richard Bentley, London, 1858
Lesen Sie einen AusschnittFeralChildren.com sagt Reprinted in various places at various times, most recently in New Delhi in 1995.
Product Description Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3( 89 CHAPTER III. Lonee Sing, of the Ahbun Rajpoot tribe—Dispute between Rajah Bukhtawar Sing and a servant of one of his relatives—Cultivation along the border of the Tarae forest—Subdivision of land among the Ahbun families—Rapacity of the King's troops, and establishments of all kinds—Climate near the Tarae—Goitres—Not one-tenth of the cultivable lands cultivated, nor one-tenth of the villages peopled —Criterion of good tillage—Ratoou crops—Manure available— Khyrabad district better peopled and cultivated than that of Ma- homdee, but the soil over-cropped—Blight—Rajah Ajeet Sing and . his estate of Khymara—Ousted by collusion and bribery—Anrod Sing of Oel, and Loiiee Sing—State of Oude forty years ago compared with ita present state—The Nazim of the Khyrabad district— Trespasses of his followers—Oel Dhukooa—textit{Khalsa lands absorbed by the Rajpoot barons—Salarpoor—Sheobuksh Sing, of Kuteysura— textit{Shulmunsee, or property tax—Beautiful groves of Lahurpoor—Residence of the Nazim—Wretched state of the force with the Nazim— Gratuities paid by officers in charge of districts, whether in contract or trust—Rajah Argun Sing's estate of Dhorehra—Hereditary gang robbers of the Oude Tarae suppressed—Mutiny of two of the King's Regiments at Bhitolee—Their rapacity and oppression—Singers and fiddlers who govern the King—Why the Amils take all their troops with them when they move—Seetapoor, tho cantonment of one of the two Regiments of Oude Local Infantry—Sipahees not equal to those in Magness's, Barlow's, and Banbury's, or in our Native Regiments of the Line—Why—The Prince Momtaz-od Dovvlah —Evil effects of shooting monkeys—Doolaree, alias Mulika Zumanee —Her history, and that of her son and daughter. Lonee Sing, who visited me yesterday afternoon with a respectable train, has, in this and other wa...
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