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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - B

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byAlison Kilpatrick
CommentIndex of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past.". by Minden Wilson 1908.

View all other items of "Surname" with value "Abbott" in "Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - B" Surname  Abbott    
Forename(s)  H.E.    
Section  History of Behar Indigo Factories    
Chapter  History of Behar Indigo Factories    
Sub-title  Jaintpore H. E. A. J., Tirhoot District    
Page nos.  27    
Description  Built Jaintpore Factory, 1872-73, in dehats claimed by Dooriah, Seriyah, Motipore, Contie and Dowdpore Factories. The mokararrarie for Jaintpore stood in Abbott�s name. Managed Jaintpore Factory for the mohunt [Raja Ram Dass], and built outworks, Teekaha, Nirghee, Pukri and Godai, 1875-84. Managed Jaintpore for Mohunt Ragoonath Dass after Dass� brother�s death.    
Indexer  (1) A dehat is a group of villages with boundaries defined for property rights. (2) A late 19th century definition of the word, mokarrarie: �permanent intermediate land tenure.� Source: The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920, by Anand A. Yang (University of California Press, 1989), pg. 242. (3) A Mohunt was a Hindu or Sikh priest. (4) A Raja, or Rájá, was a king or a prince, or a title for private persons of high rank. (5) An outwork was an outlying indigo factory, a subsidiary of a head factory or �concern�.    
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Index of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past. History of Behar Light Horse
Volunteers". by Minden Wilson 1908.
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