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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER II
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Order by the Durbar, that the minister hasten to get the lands tilled, as the season was passing away.

Nothing whatever was done! _September_ 24, 1847 .-- Report from the same place states, that Rughbur Sing had seized no less than eighteen thousand bullocks, from the villages of the Bondee estate, collected them at Neemapoor, and ordered his agents to get them all sold off as fast as possible; and that the cultivators could till none of the lands in consequence.
Order by the Durbar, that the minister put a stop to all this oppression.

Nothing whatever was done! _September_ 24, 1847 .-- Report from the same place states, that Kurum Hoseyn had seized Ahlad Sing, the malgoozar of Hurkapoor in Bondee, and had red-hot ramrods thrust into his flesh, on account of a balance due, and then had him put upon an ass and paraded through the streets.

Order by the Durbar, that the minister see to this.

Nothing whatever was done! _August_ 2, 1847 .-- Report from Gonda states, that the troops under Beharee Lal were robbing all the females of the country of their ornaments; and that Beharee Lal neither did nor said anything to prevent them.


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