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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - B

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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 "MacLeod" in "Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - B" Surname  MacLeod    
Forename(s)  Kenneth    
Chapter  History of Behar Indigo Factories    
Sub-title  Pertabpore, Sarun District    
Page nos.  103    
Description  Proprietor of Bunkut outwork; W. James opened the factory on MacLeod�s account, 1851. MacLeod sold 8 annas of Bunkut and Portaubpore factories to John Anderson c.1854. Mr. James getting into difficulties, MacLeod took over the place and sold 8 annas to Tom Slade. Came again to the rescue when James failed at Jogapore Factory. MacLeod, Kazee Ramzan Ali and Mr. James were the three leading men in Sarun district; �K. MacLeod financed them and between them they made the Sarun district the flourishing district it was in those days.�    
Indexer  (1) An outwork was an outlying indigo factory, a subsidiary of a head factory or �concern�. (2) An anna was a one-sixteenth part, for example, of a rupee or a parcel of land. (3) A Kazee, or Kázi, was a judge and registrar of marriages and divorces, holding a high place in Musalmán communities. (4) See also index entries for �MacLeod, Kenneth�, and �McLeod, Kenneth�.    
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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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