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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - C

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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.

Surname  Muir    
Forename  James Cullen    
Chapter  Tirhoot and Its Inhabitants of the Past    
Sub-title  Biographical sketch: James Cullen Muir    
Page nos.  285-286    
Description  Was sent out from Glasgow to David Crawford as an assistant at Kanti. Did very well at first. Was “rather a hard master with the natives.” Was at Tatereah for a short time; then got Chutwarrah, where he managed for some time. While at Chutwarrah, built Dhurumpore to prevent people interloping. “When the Tirhoot Indigo Company of London sold off their factories, Chatwarrah being one of them, Muir had to leave.” Was for a short time at Poona. Then built an interloping factory called Kopee, in the Shapore Oundie dehaut. Muir was “at one time manager of Baghwanpore Factory, in the Monghyr district, where he was accused of having beaten a native and was found guilty and run in. Like many others, when misfortune came to him, he took to drink and died.” The author, Minden J. Wilson, thought that Muir was buried at Kopee Factory. “In his case a Munshi, who had done well under his master, Jimmy Muir, behaved differently to Sunful Raie, John Anderson’s jemadar, for Muir’s Munshi beggared himself in trying to help his master.”    
Indexer Notes  (1) A dehaut, or dehat, is a group of villages with boundaries defined for property rights. (2) A munshi, or moonshee, was a secretary or interpreter. (3) A jemadar, or jámádár, was a chief or leader of people, often in the army, the police or in the customs. (4) See also index entries for “Muir, J.C.”    
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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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