[78] Campbell's Modern India, 105.
[79] Rambles in India, by Col. Sleeman, vol. i. p. 296.
[80] Speech of Mr. G. Thompson in the House of Commons.
[81] See page 133 ante.
[82] Chapman's Commerce and Cotton of India, 74.
[83] Chapman, Cotton and Commerce of India, 28.
[84] Taking the last six of the thirteen years, the price of cotton was 2d. a pound, and if the produce of a beegah was 6s. 6d., of this the government took sixty-eight per cent. of the gross produce; and taking the two years 1841 and 1842, cotton was 1-3/4 d. a pound, and the produce of a beegah was 5s. 8d. On this the assessment was actually equal to seventy-eight per cent. on the gross produce of the land.—Speech of Mr. Bright in the House of Commons.
[85] Chapman's Commerce and Cotton of India, 110.
[86] Chapman, 167.
[87] Rambles, vol. i. 205.