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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - C
| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Alison Kilpatrick | | Comment | Index 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. |
| | Surname | Slade | | | Forename | John | | | Chapter | Reminiscences of Behar | | | Sub-title | Chapter VI. Go to Kurnoul--Fattened Ghainies--�Many a Slip �twixt Cup and Lip�--How Cattle are treated--Brahmini Bulls--Narrow escape of J.S. Studd--False Case | | | Page nos. | 152-153 | | | Description | Came to India �when �John Company� ruled supreme, as no non-official European could remain in the country without a permit,�and this right he forfeited if he did anything that was displeasing to the eyes of the powers existing.� As an example, Slade related to the author, Minden J. Wilson, the episode in which a native �tried to have him turned out of the country by getting up a false case against him. A charge was sworn to before the Magistrate that [Slade] had lost his temper with a ryot of one of the neighbouring villages and had had him tied with a rope and dragged by bullocks over a field, from the effects of which the man died; and that his body had been thrown into the river, etc. ... [T]hings began to look ugly, when one of [Slade�s] factory servants, who was standing near him, whispered into his ear: �Why, there is the supposed murdered man sitting in court listening to the case.� ... [T]hough the case was shown to be a vile conspiracy, [Slade] had to leave the District, and it was only after he had arrived in Calcutta that he managed to get the order rescinded.� | | | Indexer Notes | (1) �John Company� was a slang personification of the Hon. East India Company. (2) A ryot was a subject, peasant, or cultivator. (3) Wilson related a similar story for James Slade [pp. 214-215]. |
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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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