b-R পুণ্ডরীককুলকীর্ভিপঞ্জিক। Talook of Futtehsing.—Various causes, the separate effects of which I do not think necessary on the present occasion minutely to examine, may have influenced the extraordinary reduction of the original standard assessment, now for the first time occurring in the zemindary detail of the Soubah of Bengal, in the compendious form of a Teshkhussy Jumma on the total of the Ausil : 1st. It may in volve part of the general small remission of Sujah Khan, under the same technical denomination on the Ausil Toomary of his predecessor. 2dly. It may in part, and possibly altogether, have been in consequence of the destructive war commenced with the Mahrattas in 1148, and waged for years in and about this little territory, to the certain diminution of its annual funds of revenue; 3dly. As near one half of the district is a morass, partially capable perhaps of producing only a scanty crop of rice, after an original outlay in the mode of tuckavy for the purpose of melioration, usually made by the sovereign proprietor alone, enabled with the will to encourage or perform the greater agricultural improvements in Hindostan ; so when the constant smaller expense and labour necessary to maintain works of permanent utility in busbandry were for a long time discon. tinued, these may have fallen more quickly in decay, than they could again be gradually restored, through the miserably feeble efforts of a needy despotic Government ; 4th. Ilerrypersaud the former landholder, drying without issue, in the time of Aliverdi Khan, Bydenaut his servant, procured a zemindary sunnud for the whole possession, in the name of his own son Neelkaunt the present occupant. Parbutty wife of the deceased, claimed a subsistence ; and it seems likely, that a temporary allowance was made to her, forming part of the Teshkhussy reduction ; bnt it was reserved for an English administration, after a lapse of near 30 years, to espouse her father’s pretensions; to decree in her favour a moiety of the chartered rights of Neelkaunt, which had been otherwise considerably lessened by new alienations to Khalsa Mutseddy Talookdars; and in her behals even countenance the novel system of female adoption, in a country where
- These three Pergunnahs contain the talook of Herrypersaud, the son of Surajemun. t
