Dutt, Romesh Chunder: The literature of Bengal: being an attempt to trace the progress of the national mind in its various aspects, as reflected in the nation’s literature from the earliest times to the present day ; with copious extracts from the best writers (Calcutta, 1877)

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agriculturists, were subjected to equal tyranny; fallow
lands were entered as Wable, and 15 cottahs of land
were reckoned as a bigah by a vicious system of measure-
ment. Every Rupee was short by 2| annas. The agri-^
culturists thus grievously oppressed, began to sell off
their cattle and grain of which there ^aa a glut in the
market, so that a Rupee worth of thipgs sold fpr 10 annas.
About this time Gopinath Nandi, the Talookdar, under
whom the poet held his lands, and who is described
as a pious man, got into a scrape and was imprisoned.
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