The Calcutta Review, Volume 14University of Calcutta, 1850 - India |
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Page 5
... cultivating portion of their subjects : for undue exactions and overbearing imposts on the part of any Amír led to desertion from the territory of that Amír to the lands of his more politic neighbour - thus increasing the reve- nues and ...
... cultivating portion of their subjects : for undue exactions and overbearing imposts on the part of any Amír led to desertion from the territory of that Amír to the lands of his more politic neighbour - thus increasing the reve- nues and ...
Page 11
... cultivated . A desert tract runs between the hills and the cultivated strip by the river - very broad to the north , but diminishing as it proceeds towards Sehwan . Including this desert , the Province does not exceed in area 35,000 ...
... cultivated . A desert tract runs between the hills and the cultivated strip by the river - very broad to the north , but diminishing as it proceeds towards Sehwan . Including this desert , the Province does not exceed in area 35,000 ...
Page 16
... cultivated , without reference to the produce of the season . The word is derived from " kasah , " the sixtieth part of a karwar . * The assessment was so many kasahs per bigah . The average rate was seven kasahs and , as thirty kasahs ...
... cultivated , without reference to the produce of the season . The word is derived from " kasah , " the sixtieth part of a karwar . * The assessment was so many kasahs per bigah . The average rate was seven kasahs and , as thirty kasahs ...
Page 17
... cultivation , digging a well , or cutting a canal , gradually left but a small portion of the village lands assessable at the old rate . The frequency , with which these leases were changed by the Amírs themselves , or by the local ...
... cultivation , digging a well , or cutting a canal , gradually left but a small portion of the village lands assessable at the old rate . The frequency , with which these leases were changed by the Amírs themselves , or by the local ...
Page 18
... cultivation , was placed a Sazáwul , or head collector , who exercised a general superintendence over the whole , and had an establishment , vary- ing according to the extent of his charge , with a treasurer , eight or ten munshis , and ...
... cultivation , was placed a Sazáwul , or head collector , who exercised a general superintendence over the whole , and had an establishment , vary- ing according to the extent of his charge , with a treasurer , eight or ten munshis , and ...
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