Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency ..., Volume 18, Part 2Printed at the Government Central Press, 1885 |
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Page 289 - ... politics of the East) exhibited, on that trying occasion, military courage and skill which, though valuable accessories to diplomatic talents, we are not entitled to require as necessary qualifications for civil employment. On that, and not on that occasion only, but on many others in the course of this singular campaign, Mr. Elphinstone displayed talents and resources, which would have rendered him no mean general, in a country where generals are of no mean excellence and reputation.
Page 72 - ... of stones thrown together in the fields, in the deserted burrow of the kok,\ or contenting itself with the deep cracks and fissures formed in the black soil during the hot months. Great numbers perish annually when these collapse and fill up at the commencement of the rains.
Page 277 - Peshwah ; he has no public feeling, and his private disposition is terrible. I have no positive proof that he has been treacherous, but I have a strong suspicion of it ; and I know that since he signed the treaty of Bassein, he has done no one thing that has been desired, either with a view to forward his own interest, or the views of the alliance, or the common safety during the war.
Page 328 - A man's means of payment, not the land he occupied, were the scale on which he was assessed. No moderation was shown in levying the sum fixed, and every pretext for fine and forfeiture, every means of rigour and confiscation, were employed to squeeze the utmost out of the people before the arrival of the day when the Mamlatdar was to give up his charge...
Page 211 - ... yield. Unlike Todar Mai, Akbar's famous minister, by whom the lands of north India were settled, Malik Ambar did not make his settlement permanent, but allowed the demand to vary in accordance with the harvest. This system was so successful that, inspite of heavy war charges, his finances prospered and his territories which included the northern sub-divisions of Sholapur, throve and grew rich.
Page 205 - Parenda, with the eleven surrounding districts, were entrusted to two brothers, Zain Khan and Khwaja Jahan. In each province only one fort was left in the governor's hands ; all others were entrusted to captains and garrisons appointed and paid from head-quarters. The pay of the captains was greatly raised and they were forced to keep their garrisons at full strength. This scheme brought on Mahmud Gawan the hatred of the leading nobles who in 1481, by false charges of treason, succeeded in procuring...
Page 329 - Bajeerao's restoration, the country was laid waste by war and famine, the people were reduced to misery, and the Government derived scarcely any revenue from its lands.
Page 242 - The plains of Panipat were not more fatal to the Maratha empire,* than the early end of this excellent prince.
Page 205 - ... including the lands of two or three of the old villages. Land was given to all who would till it free of rent for the first year and for a horse-bag of grain for the second year. This settlement was entrusted to Dadu Narsu Kale, an experienced Brahman and to a Turkish eunuch of the court.
Page 128 - CDBIT, in the mensuration of the ancients ; a long measure, equal to the length of a man's arm, from the elbow to the tip of the fingers.