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Considerations on the Present Political State of India (Volume 1); Embracing Observations on the Character of the Natives, on the Civil and Criminal ... the Condition of the Peasantry, and th - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1816 Excerpt: ... never can have effect or energy, except under modifications which will make allowance for habits and prejudices that can bend to no law which is not of a divine origin, for on what the natives believe to be divine laws are these habits and prejudices founded. CHAP. IV. CHAP. IV. Second Cause Of Delinquency, Viz. Poverty Of The Lower Orders, From The OppresSion Of The Zem1xdary System, And More Particularly From The Sub-division Of Landed Property Under The Ijaradar, KotXinadars And Dvr-kotkinada&s. poverty among the lower orders in every country has an immediate effect in multiplying the number of petty thieves; and where the bounds of the moral principle have been once overstepped, however trivial the first offence, the progress is easy from petty theft to the greater crimes of burglary and robbery. The character once gone, there is no return to a virtuous course of life. "Facilis "Facilis descensus Averni, sed revocare "gradum,--hie opus, hie labor." Poverty, or according to the definition of writers on police, indigence, may thus be said to be the nurse of almost all crimes. To find out the causes of poverty, and to attempt their removal, must, therefore, be the chief object of a good police; for, in every case, the prevention of crimes is better than their punishment. One great cause of delinquency in Bengal may, I think, be traced to the unequal division of wealth among the higher and middle classes, excluding by far the gfeater part of the community,--the peasants and manufacturers; and this unequal division appears to me to be chiefly caused by the complete change which our Government has made in the condition of the Ryots or actual cultivators of the soil j I mean, by throwing the landed property into the hands of of the Zemindars. This change was, ...
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