 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 1904 - 658 pages
...be essential to the prosperity of the country. Although concurring most unreservedly in the»opimon that it was wise and salutary, and that it contained...that the landholders who had received from us the troversy the Court of Directors finally declared themselves, in 1821, against the conclusion of a Permanent... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 1908 - 666 pages
...that we were not at the moment in a state of preparation to consummate so great an undertaking ; bnt it never occurred to my mind that the principle of...abandoned, or that the landholders who had received from as the troversy the Court of Directors finally declared themselves, in 1821, against the conclusion... | |
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I was appointed in 1807," he wrote, many years after, " to carry into execution a measure which successive administrators had considered to be essential to the prosperity of the country. Although concurring most unreservedly in the opinion that it was... 