The Punjab in Peace and WarWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1904 - 364 páginas |
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administration advance Afghan Afridis already Amir amongst annexation arms artillery attack battle began Bengal army brigade Calcutta camp campaign canal cantonment cavalry Chenab Chief Chillianwala Chitral civil Colonel command Commissioner Court Delhi Derajat despatch disarmed districts Diwan Doab Durbar enemy enemy's English famine Ferozepore Ferozeshah fighting fire followed force frontier garrison Government of India Governor-General Gujerat Gulab Singh guns Henry Lawrence Hindu Hindustanis horse Indus irrigation Jallandar Jhelam John Lawrence Kabul Khalsa Khyber Kunar Lahore Lord Curzon Lord Dalhousie Lord Elgin Lord Gough Ludhiana Maharaja Mahsuds ment miles military millions sterling Mohmands money-lenders Moodki Muhammadan Multan Musalmans Mutiny native infantry regiments once Orakzais Pathan peasantry Peshawar political position province Punjab revenue Rifles river rule ruler Runjit Singh Sahibs sepoys Sher Singh Sikhs Simla Sindh sirdars soldiers soon Sutlej Swat tion Tirah Tochi trans-Indus tribes troops Umra Khan valley Viceroy village whilst whole
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Página 121 - It has pleased Almighty God to vouchsafe to the British arms the most successful issue to the extensive combinations rendered necessary for the purpose of effecting the passage of the Chenab...
Página 231 - In the Punjab, one and the same man is usually absolute proprietor and generally the sole cultivator, though he may occassionally lease out a few fields to tenants. He is saddled with no rent. He has to provide for the cost of cultivation and for the Government demand ; the rest of the produce he may devote to the maintenance of his family and the accumulation of his capital. But these men, well maintaining their individuality, do yet belong to Village Communities. A village is not inhabited by a...
Página 168 - ... debt, commercial usage. We have the most " open and liberal provisions for the admission of " evidence. We have complete arrangements for " reference to arbitration, and for the ascertainment " of local custom. We have a procedure, without any " pretension to technical exactitude ; but a procedure " which provides for the litigants and their respective " witnesses being confronted in open court, for a " decision being arrived at immediately after this brief 36 " forensic controversy, and for...
Página 239 - One-third of the landholding classes are deeply and inextricably in debt, and at least an equal proportion are in debt, though not beyond the power of recovering themselves.
Página 183 - Department, showing the exact yield and value per acre of every kind of crop, it has been ascertained that the Government demand does not exceed one-fifth of the gross value of the produce in rich tracts, and one-sixth, or one-eighth, in poor tracts.
Página 168 - Soles, mortgages, debt, commercial usage, we have the most open and liberal provisions for the admission of evidence. We have complete arrangements for reference to arbitration, and for the ascertainment of local custom. We have a procedure without any pretension to technical exactitude, but a procedure which provides for the litigants and their respective witnesses being confronted in open court, for a decision Cooper's Crisis in the Punjab. being arrived at immediately after this brief forensic...
Página 151 - I take this fitting occasion of recording my strong and deliberate opinion, that in the exercise of a wise and sound policy the British Government is bound not to put aside or neglect such rightful opportunities of acquiring territory or revenue as may from time to time present themselves...
Página 245 - Acts, the want of which had never been felt, and the meaning of many provisions of which is a frequent subject of remunerative dispute to those who live by the law. Hardly any such Act passed between 1870 and 1884 is comprehensible to laymen. In England no prudent man is his own lawyer ; he effects his transactions through professional experts.
Página 121 - Sir Walter Gilbert. The Sikhs, it appears, retreated in the greatest disorder, leaving in the villages numerous wounded men. They have subdivided into three divisions, which have become more a flight than a retreat; and I understand a great portion of those not belonging to the revolted Khalsa army have dispersed and returned to their homes, thus, I trust, effectually frustrating the views of the rebel Shere Sing and his rebel associates.
Página 29 - In 1819 his master had employed him in an enterprise the successful execution of which required considerable finesse — the peaceful acquisition of Kishtwar, a hill principality. The mission was carried out with such tact — the state being seized by artifice and its ruler deported to Lahore and there quietly poisoned — that Gulab Singh's grateful sovereign bestowed Jammu upon him in jagir.