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A.D. 1793.]
REGULATION II.
9
in the same predicament, with regard to their respective shares, as the
zemindars, independent talookdars, and other actual proprietors of land
specified in the fourth article, whose lands have been let in farm, or are
held klias, in consequence of their having refused to pay the assessment
required of them under the before-mentioned Regulations for the decen-
nial settlement; and the declarations contained in that article are to be
considered applicable to them.
A.D. 1793. REGULATION II.
A REGULATION /OT" A<? UoM7'A q/* 07" Ahv<?72M6
Combs, a? A bvm.s/EobMp Ac YWA q/ Ac /SGAs ziAAA WC7-C coy^zAoCc A
Ao^C OoM7b.S A Ac Co777"A o/' Cc706!7Z777/ ; 77722/ y77"C6*C7"AA^
yb7' Ac C072&2C/ o/ Ac j5o07"C^ q/* J^CVCMMC 0??A Ac CoJAcA7W ; PASSED
"Ac Co77C7"7207'-Cc72C7"o/ A COM77C2/ 072 Ac R/ Afo?/, 1793.
1. IN the British territories in Bengal, the greater part of the materials
required for the numerous and valuable manufactures, and most of the
other principal articles of export, are the produce of the lands: it follows,
that the commerce, and consequently the wealth of the country, must
increase in proportion to the extension of its agriculture. But it is not
for commercial purposes alone that the encouragement of agriculture is
essential to the welfare of these provinces. The Hindoos, who form the
body of the people, are compelled, by the dictates of religion, to depend
solely upon the produce of the lands for subsistence; and the generality
of such of the lower orders of the natives as are not of that persuasion,
are, from habit or necessity, in a similar predicament. The extensive
failure or destruction of the crops that occasionally arises from drought or
inundation, is in consequence invariably followed by famine, the ravages
of which are felt chiefly by the cultivators of the soil and the manufac-
turers, from whose labours the country derives both its subsistence and
wealth. Experience having evinced that adequate supplies of grain are
not obtainable from abroad in seasons of scarcity, the country must neces-
sarily continue subject to these calamities, until the proprietors and
cultivators of the lands shall have the means of increasing the number of
the reservoirs, embankments, and other artificial works, by which, to a
great degree, the untimely cessation of the periodical rains may be pro-
vided against, and the lands protected from inundation; and as a necessary
consequence, the stock of grain in the country at large shall always be
sufficient to supply those occasional, but less extensive deficiencies in the
annual produce, which may be expected to occur, notwithstanding the
adoption of the above precautions to obviate them. To effect these
improvements in agriculture, which must necessarily be followed by the
increase of every article of produce, has accordingly been one of the
primary objects to which the attention of the British Administration has
c
Reg. II. 1793.
REGULATION II.
9
in the same predicament, with regard to their respective shares, as the
zemindars, independent talookdars, and other actual proprietors of land
specified in the fourth article, whose lands have been let in farm, or are
held klias, in consequence of their having refused to pay the assessment
required of them under the before-mentioned Regulations for the decen-
nial settlement; and the declarations contained in that article are to be
considered applicable to them.
A.D. 1793. REGULATION II.
A REGULATION /OT" A<? UoM7'A q/* 07" Ahv<?72M6
Combs, a? A bvm.s/EobMp Ac YWA q/ Ac /SGAs ziAAA WC7-C coy^zAoCc A
Ao^C OoM7b.S A Ac Co777"A o/' Cc706!7Z777/ ; 77722/ y77"C6*C7"AA^
yb7' Ac C072&2C/ o/ Ac j5o07"C^ q/* J^CVCMMC 0??A Ac CoJAcA7W ; PASSED
"Ac Co77C7"7207'-Cc72C7"o/ A COM77C2/ 072 Ac R/ Afo?/, 1793.
1. IN the British territories in Bengal, the greater part of the materials
required for the numerous and valuable manufactures, and most of the
other principal articles of export, are the produce of the lands: it follows,
that the commerce, and consequently the wealth of the country, must
increase in proportion to the extension of its agriculture. But it is not
for commercial purposes alone that the encouragement of agriculture is
essential to the welfare of these provinces. The Hindoos, who form the
body of the people, are compelled, by the dictates of religion, to depend
solely upon the produce of the lands for subsistence; and the generality
of such of the lower orders of the natives as are not of that persuasion,
are, from habit or necessity, in a similar predicament. The extensive
failure or destruction of the crops that occasionally arises from drought or
inundation, is in consequence invariably followed by famine, the ravages
of which are felt chiefly by the cultivators of the soil and the manufac-
turers, from whose labours the country derives both its subsistence and
wealth. Experience having evinced that adequate supplies of grain are
not obtainable from abroad in seasons of scarcity, the country must neces-
sarily continue subject to these calamities, until the proprietors and
cultivators of the lands shall have the means of increasing the number of
the reservoirs, embankments, and other artificial works, by which, to a
great degree, the untimely cessation of the periodical rains may be pro-
vided against, and the lands protected from inundation; and as a necessary
consequence, the stock of grain in the country at large shall always be
sufficient to supply those occasional, but less extensive deficiencies in the
annual produce, which may be expected to occur, notwithstanding the
adoption of the above precautions to obviate them. To effect these
improvements in agriculture, which must necessarily be followed by the
increase of every article of produce, has accordingly been one of the
primary objects to which the attention of the British Administration has
c
Reg. II. 1793.