The National Magazine New Series. February 1900

Soon after a good deal of fighting took place in the Carnatic among the powerful chiefs of the time who with the aid of the two powers of Europe the French and the English carried on a protracted war. [...] This rushing stream rminded me of the restless state of a devotee who in the midst of the rapids of trials and temptations dangers and difficulties runs the course of his life heedless of the obstructions he meets with biit bent upon reaching the goal of his aspiration the bosom of his heavenly mother to enjoy peace and happiness. [...] of the globe rests at an equilibrium that is when the deaths are equal to the births ? The municipal statisticians of Cremona and of Rome have given the number of births and of deaths in both cities extending over a period of fifteen years. [...] And need we say that under this wise and rational system of administration the ryot who form the backbone of the empire was happy and contented ? With the accession of the Muhamedan power their purse was taxed a little more and the introduction of the Zemindari system by Raja Todur Mal not only deprived them of their just and immemorial rights in the land but it also enhanced the revenue in the [...] 65 doubt not that even the most staunch apologist of government would blush to admit the reasonableness of the policy which has deprived the ryot of all iris interest in the land and which carries with a silver spoon all the fruits of his labour to the mouth of a whole race of middleman just above him while he is left to starve.