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Strike, but Hear!; Evidence Explanatory of the Indigo System in Lower Bengal
Strike but Hear Evidence Explanatory of the Indigo System in Lower Bengal Author:James Long General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Original Publisher: Lepage Subjects: Indigo industry Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books... more ».com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: N. B. -- The Planters have diligently represented tins proclamation as containing an intimation that the Ryots were at liberty to break their contracts ! -- Editor.) From A. R. Young, Esq.,. Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to the Commissioner of Nuddea, -- (No. 926, dated the 14th March, 1860. )t Sir, I am directed by the Lieutenant-Governor to forward to you herewith a Notification which I am to request you will, as speedily as possible, have very carefully translated into Bengalee, and distributed extensively in those Districts of your Division in which misunderstanding has occurred, or is likely to occur, in connection with the cultivation of Indigo. Government Proclamation. Notification. It appears from the reports of Local Officers, as well as from complaints which have been preferred to the Lieutenant-Governor by Indigo Planters, that a misapprehension prevails in the minds of the Ryots of some Districts as to the views of Government in regard to the cultivation of Indigo ; and that in some places it has been falsely represented, by designing persons, that the Government is desirous to discourage the cultivation of Indigo; nnd even that the Police will protect Ryots in the evasion of contracts entered into by them with Indigo Planters. It is surprising that such foolish reports should have obtained credence. Nevertheless it is proper that they should be authoritatively contradicted. Wherefore it is hereby declared that although it is always optional with Ryots to take advances and to enter into contracts for Indigo, or not to do ...« less