The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday November 10 1919

The kettle ment of the terms of peace with Turkey will tax the tact judgment and the art of 41iplmacy of the leading statesmen of the 'Ries to the utmost. [...] In the Pathan period there were certainly many circumstances that introduced elements of disturbance in the relation between the Goernment and the landlords but the caprice of the rulers and the ability to enforce their wills were regulated as much by the power of rsistance as by the physical inaccessibility of the positions of the Zemindars. [...] His departure from the time-honoured and salutary Mahomedan principle of fixity of tenure and fixity of rent coupled with the destruction of the yeomanry of the country made the final transfer of the rule a matter of unconcern if not of rejoicing to the people. [...] Below the :Rajah there were the Bhumer Adhipatis Chaturdhurins Mandals and Gram Adhipatis In the Mahomedan period the Projah became the raiyat ; the Rajah the Huzoor or Badshah ; the Gram Adhipatis and Mandals became the Magoozars and Muccadums ; the Chaturdhurins the Chowdhries ; the Bhumer Adhipatis the Bhuias; the Taluqdars Etmamdars Zemi'dars Cronies etc. [...] XIX of 1793 were " By the ancient laws of the country the ruling power is entitled to cetain proportion of the produce of every bigha of land demandable in money or in kind according to local custom." It was the explanation of the term Bhumer Adhipati that decided in their eyes' the claims of the Zemindars to the prprietary right in the soil.