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Excerpt from The Taluqdari Settlements in Oudh
Tenant, as Sir George Couper justly remarked, are not yet dead in the ancient baronies of Oudh. They are not only not dead, but it can be unmistakably proved that the true spirit - the ethos - of feudalism is still in its pris tine vigour in many parts of the Garden of India. Any attempt to destroy the authority of the taluqdars in their estates, and to disturb the filial relations that exist between them and their tenants, is a thing to be deprecated and deplored by all true friends of Oudh. The proper course of action of every one who has the lasting welfare of the Province at heart, should be not to attempt to under mine proprietary rights and to set the tenants against their landlords, but to convince misguided landlords that their interests are closely bound up with those of their tenants, and that their true strength lies in the happiness and prosperity of those who hold under them. To try to decry the Taluqdari system with a view to raise the present status of the ryots of Oudh, is likely to result in nothing more than in engendering bitter feelings between the landlords and their tenants, and thus defeat the very object our philanthropists set before them. Their aim should be not to sneer at the patriarchal institutions of India and to rudely shake the existing feudal organiza tion of the country, but to endeavour to combine order with progress - the statical with the dynamical forces of society. Progress is then alone placed on firm ground, when it is based on order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
