The History of British India volume 7
The History of British India volume 7
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Strachey ; An- swers to Queries; Judicial Records, ii. 70. At Nadiya, two thousand and seventy-one persons were apprehended as Dakoits from the 20th of May, 1808, to the 31st of May, 1809 ; of whom no less than one thousand fight hundred and twenty-eight had been taken up as men of bad charac- ter and on vague suspicion, forty-four only had been convicted before the Court of Circuit during two sessions, three hundred and sixty-nine had been released by (lie magistrate, two hundred and sixty-eig...ht acquitted by 406 HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA.
BOOK I. It was argued in defence of this procedure, that, _^m_^_ although the acquitted persons might not have been concerned in the actual offence, yet they were cog- nisant of its perpetration, and neither took any steps to prevent it, nor to bring the perpetrators to jus- tice ; that violent diseases required strong remedies ; and that it was better that a few innocent persons should suffer than the whole community live in alarm and danger. Equally exceptionable was the subor- dinate agency by which the objects of the magis- trates were in most instances obtained the em- ployment of hired spies or Goyendas : it was ad- mitted that the system was liable to abuse ; that the Goyendas were unprincipled miscreants, who made their power the means of extortion, and who hesitated not to sacrifice innocent individuals t
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Strachey ; An- swers to Queries; Judicial Records, ii. 70. At Nadiya, two thousand and seventy-one persons were apprehended as Dakoits from the 20th of May, 1808, to the 31st of May, 1809 ; of whom no less than one thousand fight hundred and twenty-eight had been taken up as men of bad charac- ter and on vague suspicion, forty-four only had been convicted before the Court of Circuit during two sessions, three hundred and sixty-nine had been released by (lie magistrate, two hundred and sixty-eig...ht acquitted by 406 HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA.
BOOK I. It was argued in defence of this procedure, that, _^m_^_ although the acquitted persons might not have been concerned in the actual offence, yet they were cog- nisant of its perpetration, and neither took any steps to prevent it, nor to bring the perpetrators to jus- tice ; that violent diseases required strong remedies ; and that it was better that a few innocent persons should suffer than the whole community live in alarm and danger. Equally exceptionable was the subor- dinate agency by which the objects of the magis- trates were in most instances obtained the em- ployment of hired spies or Goyendas : it was ad- mitted that the system was liable to abuse ; that the Goyendas were unprincipled miscreants, who made their power the means of extortion, and who hesitated not to sacrifice innocent individuals t
What to read after The History of British India volume 7?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by James Mill to read onlineMoreLess
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