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" The roguery practised in this department is beyond imagination ; but all terminates in the defrauding of the poor weaver; for the prices which the Company's Gomastahs, and in confederacy with them the Jachendars... "
Considerations on India Affairs: Particularly Respecting the Present State ... - Page 193
by William Bolts - 1772 - 412 pages
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The Administration of Warren Hastings, 1772-1785: Reviewed and Illustrated ...

Sir George Forrest - British - 1892 - 434 pages
...business is employed an offi er called the Company's jachendar or assorter. The rojfnery practised in this department is beyond imagination, but all...the poor weaver, for the prices which the Company's gomastahs. and, in confederacy with them, the jachendars fix upon the goods, are in all pl.ices at...
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Selections from the State Papers of the Governors-general of India

Sir George Forrest - Great Britain - 1910 - 356 pages
...business is employed an officer called the ' Company's jachendar or assorter. The roguery practised in this 'department is beyond imagination, but all...the poor weaver, for the prices which the Company's 'gomastahs and, in confederacy with them, the jachendars fix upon 'the goods are in all places at least...
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The Making of British India, 1756-1858

Ramsay Muir - India - 1915 - 440 pages
...hold a khatta, as the term is, for assorting and fixing the price of each piece. The roguery practised in this department is beyond imagination, but all...the poor weaver ; for the prices which the Company's gomastas fix upon the goods, are in all places at least fifteen per cent, and in some even forty per...
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England's Debt to India: A Historical Narrative of Britain's Fiscal Policy ...

Lajpat Rai (Lala) - British - 1917 - 410 pages
...slaves, subject to the tyranny and roguery of each succeeding Gomastah. . . . The roguery practised in this department is beyond imagination; but all...the poor weaver ; for the prices which the Company's Gomastahs, and in confederacy with them the Jachendars (examiners of fabrics) fix upon the goods, are...
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Economic Annals of Bengal

Jogis Chandra Sinha - Bengal (India) - 1927 - 322 pages
...which business is employed an officer called the Company's Jachendar or assorter. The roguery practised in this department is beyond imagination, but all...the poor weaver; for the prices which the Company's gomastahs and, in confederacy with them, the Jachendars fix upon the goods are in all places at least...
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Unhappy India

Lajpat Rai (Lala) - India - 1928 - 644 pages
...many slaves, subject to the tyranny and roguery of each succeeding gomastah... The roguery practised in this department is beyond imagination; but all...the poor weaver; for the prices which the Company's gomastahs and, in confederacy with them, the jachendars (examiners of fabrics) fix upon the goods,...
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Considerations on India Affairs

Patrick J. N. Tuck - Bengal (India) - 1998 - 458 pages
...which bufinefs is employed an officer called <he Company's Jachendar, or aflbrter. The roguery pra&Ucd in this department is beyond imagination, but all...Company's gomaftahs, and, in confederacy with them, the Jacbcndars fix upon the goods, are in all places at leaft fifteen per cent, and in (brae even forty...
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The Economic History of India Under Early British Rule: From the Rise of the ...

Romesh Chunder Dutt - Business & Economics - 2000 - 466 pages
...slaves, subject to the tyranny and roguery of each succeeding Gomastah. . . . The roguery practised in this department is beyond imagination ; but all...the poor weaver ; for the prices which the Company's Gomastahs, and in confederacy with them the Jachendars [examiners of fabrics] fix upon the goods, are...
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