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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. is?
himself to be deluded by the fair promises of Trimulaia, a Brahman, chapter
who in the government of Hyder was Amildar of Kdveri-pura. The s^-^y
Brahman, after several visits, and many professions of friendship, ®cu ll-
at last induced the Polygar to make him a visit with few armed •
attendants. Immediately on his having got the Polygar in his
power, regardless of the ties of hospitality, the Amildar hanged the
ruffian; who met with a merited fate, had it been inflicted by ho-
nourable means. Such policy, however, is not unusual among the
natives of Asia. s
The chief of a neighbouring village, who supplied me with pro- Querulous
visions, was exceedingly disposed to complain. He first told me, the natives.
that, since the Company had acquired the government of the
country, his rent had been raised from 6 to 11 Pagodas a year ; but, as
I knew that the rent was fixed on the fields, I soon brought him to
confess, that he now occupied much more land than he did under
Tippoo's government. He then complained, that now he could not
cheat the government: in former times, by means of a small bribe,
he could get excused from paying a large share of his rent.
These rents are all paid in money, the whole cultivation in this Tenures and
rent
valley being that of dry grains. They are fixed on each field by a
valuation made in the reign of the Sultan, which is very unequal;
but people have lately been employed to measure all the arable
lands, with a view of making a more just assessment. The Gauda,
or chief of the village, prefers paying his present rent to an equal
division of the crop ; and says, that he would be contented to give
government one third of the produce. Owing to the dilapidations
to which such a mode of paying rent must be subject, it is evident,
that the public, by what is called an equal division of the crops,
would not in reality get one third of the produce: the present rent,
therefore, is probably not excessive.
The Gauda complains also, and I believe with reason, of the great Poverty of
poverty to which the people are reduced by the plundering of the t01.s>
Lumbadies, who in the last war supplied the army with grain. Ho
himself to be deluded by the fair promises of Trimulaia, a Brahman, chapter
who in the government of Hyder was Amildar of Kdveri-pura. The s^-^y
Brahman, after several visits, and many professions of friendship, ®cu ll-
at last induced the Polygar to make him a visit with few armed •
attendants. Immediately on his having got the Polygar in his
power, regardless of the ties of hospitality, the Amildar hanged the
ruffian; who met with a merited fate, had it been inflicted by ho-
nourable means. Such policy, however, is not unusual among the
natives of Asia. s
The chief of a neighbouring village, who supplied me with pro- Querulous
visions, was exceedingly disposed to complain. He first told me, the natives.
that, since the Company had acquired the government of the
country, his rent had been raised from 6 to 11 Pagodas a year ; but, as
I knew that the rent was fixed on the fields, I soon brought him to
confess, that he now occupied much more land than he did under
Tippoo's government. He then complained, that now he could not
cheat the government: in former times, by means of a small bribe,
he could get excused from paying a large share of his rent.
These rents are all paid in money, the whole cultivation in this Tenures and
rent
valley being that of dry grains. They are fixed on each field by a
valuation made in the reign of the Sultan, which is very unequal;
but people have lately been employed to measure all the arable
lands, with a view of making a more just assessment. The Gauda,
or chief of the village, prefers paying his present rent to an equal
division of the crop ; and says, that he would be contented to give
government one third of the produce. Owing to the dilapidations
to which such a mode of paying rent must be subject, it is evident,
that the public, by what is called an equal division of the crops,
would not in reality get one third of the produce: the present rent,
therefore, is probably not excessive.
The Gauda complains also, and I believe with reason, of the great Poverty of
poverty to which the people are reduced by the plundering of the t01.s>
Lumbadies, who in the last war supplied the army with grain. Ho