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Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society July 1940

1940

Paucity of material in spite of the accounts of the subordinate settlements hampered the activities of the Company "to prevent the people from being oppressed and to secure to them all their just rights and privileges for industry is the natural effect of security" To obviate this difficulty the duties of the Committee of Four were clearly defined. [...] S. capacity for improvement the mode of division of crops and the realisation of the assessment They were to draw out an account of the several divisions of the home farms" 1 specifying the chief towns and villages dependent on the various cusbat or chiefships the number of houses the nature of the soil whether watered by tanks or pikotas 2 the number of tanks and water courses the expens [...] The period prior to this important event was essentially one of revenue speculation both on the part of the Company's servants and the prospective renters in as much as neither of them had the means or the sociat standing sufficient to inspire confidence and obtain a specific knowledge of the condition of the husbandmen the capacity of the land the state of irrigational facilities the effect [...] Notwithstanding the spirited protest of Sir Robert Fletcher 1 the obstinacy of Lord Pgot who pleaded the urgency of the Tanjore affairs and the impossibility of sparing senior servants to serve on the Committee protracted the quarrels among the members of the Madras Council to a disproportinate extent. [...] 3 Early in the periokl of the disagreement between the members of the Madras Council attempts had been made to define the scope of the work of the Circuit Committee on the basis of the instructions of the Court of Directors.
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Pages
52
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120036
Segment Pages Author Actions
Revenue Administration of the Northern Circars
69-90 Lanka Sundaram view
The Surapuram Chiefs and some Sanskrit Writers Patronised by them
91-92 V. Raghavan view
A Study of the Grants of the Early Gangas
i-108 M. Sarma view
Reviews
109-112 unknown view
The XX Annual Report of The Andhra Historical Research Society Presented at the Meeting of the General Body Held on Tuesday 15th April 1941
i-iv unknown view
The XX Annual Report of the Hon. Librarian for the Year 1940—41
i-iv unknown view

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