The Economic History Of India In The Victorian Age

Author : Romesh Chunder Dutt
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230422763
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Economic History of India in the Victorian Age written by Romesh Chunder Dutt and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV LAND SETTLEMENTS IN BOMBAF The British frontier in Western India rapidly advanced under the Marquis of Hastings, and the whole of the Deccan came under British rule in 1817, after the last Mahratta War. Valuable reports on the newly-acquired territories were submitted, first by Mountstuart Elphinstone in 1819, and then by Chaplin in 1821 and 1822. And these reports throw much light on the state of agriculture, and the condition of the peasantry, under the Mahratta rule. The first and most important feature of the Mahratta Government in the Deccan, wrote Elphinstone, was the division of the country into townships or Village Communities. " These Communities contain in miniature all the materials of a State within themselves, and are almost sufficient to protect their members if all other governments are withdrawn."l The Patel or head of the Village Community, wrote Captain Robertson of Poona, " was, and is still, a magistrate by the will of the community as well as by the appointment of Government; he enforces the observance of what in England would be termed the byelaws of the corporation; he formerly raised by contribution a sum of money for the expenses of the corporation as such, and for the support of his own dignity as its head; he suggested improvements for the benefit of the association, and marshalled the members to aid him in maintaining the public peace; he dispensed and still dispenses civil justice as a patriarch to those who choose to submit to his decision as referee or arbitrator; or ho presides over the proceedings of others whom either he himself or the parties might nominate as arbitrators of their disputes."1 1 Elphinstone's Report, dated October 25, 1819. so The next most important feature of society under...