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The Indian Historical Quarterly December 1952

1952

What then is the significance of the picturesque reference to 'the four feet' of a suit in the verses quoted at the beginning of this paper ? According to Kautilya's own definition these involve in the order of their enumeration solemn affirmation (by one or other of the parties) examination of witnesses (for a regular judicial trial) application of usage (bearing on the subject-matter of the sui [...] The main points of AnglFrench dissension in the post-Versailles years were :(1) the right of the Company's Government to collect duties or customs on the French trade; (2) the exercise of jurisdiction by the French authorities witin or without the limits of their factories ; (3) the right of the French to hoist their flag at their factories and houses of commerce ; and (4) the employment of [...] Herein the Superintendent is direted to cause an immediate survey to be made of the actual possesions held by France anterior to the commencement of the late war" in the districts of his division and to transmit to the Committee a copy of it particularizing the quantity of land the limits or boundaries and the districts and parganas in which they are situated. [...] A copy of the etracts from this convention accompanies the circular and it contains the substance of Articles 19 to 24 of the convention which relate to the several rights of the French in the Company's provinces. [...] Article 19 provides that "All the inhabitants whether Europeans or Natives of the French Establishments Factories and houses of Commerce as well as of the territory annexed to them shall be under the protection of the French Flag and subject to the French Jurisdiction." Article 20 confers on the Chiefs of the French factories and other French 3 The district of Tirhut then included the present
history
Pages
103
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Index
i-xiii Narendra Law view
The Authority of the King in Kautilya’s Political Thought
307-311 U.N. Ghoushal view
Abhinava Anyatha Khyati or the Dvaita Theory of Error
312-318 P.S. Venkatasubbarao view
Some unpublished Documents Relating to the Frenchn in Bengal Bihar and Orissa (1784-87)
319-326 Hari Ghosal view
Position of Women as depicted in the Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan
327-341 Ratna Agrawala view
The Astrologer at the Village and the Court
342-349 D.C. Sircar view
Concordance of the Fauna in the Ranlayana
350-359 Sibada Chaudhuri view
Muzaffarnagar during the Revolt of 1857-58
360-371 Dharma Bhanu view
Abhidharma Texts in Tibetan
372-378 Anukul Baneriee view
An inscribed Sculpture inspired by Hala’s Gathasaptasati
379-385 Sant Katare view
The Original Home of the Imperial Guptas
386-391 unknown view
Two Tamil Inscriptions in Mahakoshal
392-394 unknown view

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