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Bengal Past & Present January—March 1915

1915

Happy then is the intimation you are pleased to give I will still make it a part of the business of my life to be well in the opinion of the world and attempt to raise myself to the epithet your fondness has bestowed—that of the deserving son. [...] delivered in a letter to the Board with thanks to the Directors of their recommendation of me to the Gentlemen of the Council here and represented that I had then been some time in Calcutta that many appointments had taken place and that I was as yet to be considered. [...] These have servants appointed over them and yet those servants are scarce sufficient to check the tricking dispositions of the zemindars to prevent the oppression of the inhabitants and to obtain for the Company the real revenue of those countries. [...] This is the present the propriety of his accepting which he made a show of submitting to the decision of the Directors. [...] I confess I experience a jealousy of the intriguing spirit of the French a spirit which it is the interest of the Asian princes to cherish and that they will find out the means to effect this is beyond a cavil.
history
Pages
205
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120279
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iv unknown view
The Letters of Mr. Richard Barwell—IV
1-35 unknown view
A Week at the Bandel Convent Hugli
36-120 H. Hosten view
The Princely Beglaroffs
121-i H. Hosten view
Some Records Illustrative of the Mayor’s Court—II
123-145 unknown view
Impey’s Birthplace
146-147 Wilmot Corfield view
Leaves from the Editor’s Note-Book
148-iv Walter Firminger view
Members’ Note-Book
157-159 unknown view
Calcutta Historical Society Proceeding of the Annual Meeting
160-170 unknown view
Calcutta Historical Society Annual Report for the Year Ending 31st December 1914
171-181 unknown view
Backmatter
182-ii unknown view

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