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Ba rayat sulh kun wa'z jang i khasm aiman nishm
Z'anki shahinshah i adil ra rayat lashkar ast.
On the other hand the same confidence could not be
produced by any periodical settlement (be it quinquennial,
decennial or even centennial) formed on the narrow
policy of securing a temporary advantage or remote
problematical gain to the government; since the love of
offspring and the desire of continuing name and lineage
in connection with the place of nativity and of residence,
and with hereditary property, are the same in a peasant
as in a prince.
No. IV.
An idea has gone abroad that the permanent or
Zamindary system, though undeniably beneficial to
Government, has proved too advantageous to the land-
holders ; and the vast wealth which they are supposed to
have derived from it has excited an anxiety in the minds
of some to devise a plea for overturning it. The fact,
however, is, that even the greatest landholder in the coun-
try, such as the Rajah of Burdwan, who pays a landtax
of between 30 and 40 lakhs of rupees to Government,
does not receive more than six or eight lakhs, about
20 per cent, on the amount collected, for his own share
as proprietor. For this sum they incur an immense
responsibility to the Government ■, they are punishable
for thefts and robberies committed within their estates,
when suspected even of negligence in preventing or
detecting such offences, and subject to loss by inundations
and failure of crops. Some may have about an equal
sum with that payable to government, and a verv few
double ; these almost exclusively in the eastern parts of
Bengal. But the generality are by no means so favour-
Z'anki shahinshah i adil ra rayat lashkar ast.
On the other hand the same confidence could not be
produced by any periodical settlement (be it quinquennial,
decennial or even centennial) formed on the narrow
policy of securing a temporary advantage or remote
problematical gain to the government; since the love of
offspring and the desire of continuing name and lineage
in connection with the place of nativity and of residence,
and with hereditary property, are the same in a peasant
as in a prince.
No. IV.
An idea has gone abroad that the permanent or
Zamindary system, though undeniably beneficial to
Government, has proved too advantageous to the land-
holders ; and the vast wealth which they are supposed to
have derived from it has excited an anxiety in the minds
of some to devise a plea for overturning it. The fact,
however, is, that even the greatest landholder in the coun-
try, such as the Rajah of Burdwan, who pays a landtax
of between 30 and 40 lakhs of rupees to Government,
does not receive more than six or eight lakhs, about
20 per cent, on the amount collected, for his own share
as proprietor. For this sum they incur an immense
responsibility to the Government ■, they are punishable
for thefts and robberies committed within their estates,
when suspected even of negligence in preventing or
detecting such offences, and subject to loss by inundations
and failure of crops. Some may have about an equal
sum with that payable to government, and a verv few
double ; these almost exclusively in the eastern parts of
Bengal. But the generality are by no means so favour-