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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[Slade] had to leave the District, and it was only after he had arrived in Calcutta that he managed to get the order rescinded.”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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