Village-communities in the East and West: Six Lectures Delivered at Oxford

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J. Murray, 1872 - 226 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 82 - ... there appears to be no country inhabited by an Aryan race in which traces do not remain of the ancient periodical re-distribution.
Sayfa 68 - In the almost inconceivable case of disobedience to the award of the village council, the sole punishment, or the sole certain punishment, would appear to be universal disapprobation33.
Sayfa 23 - Just as De Tocqueville remarked that the conquest and government of India are really the achievements which have given to England her place in the opinion of the world, so it is the prestige and the wealth arising from her Asiatic position that are the foundation stones of the British Empire.
Sayfa 151 - Such was the land settlement of Oudh, which was shattered to pieces by the Sepoy mutiny of 1857, and which greatly affected its course. Do you, reversing this policy, arrange that the superior holder shall be answerable, to Government? You find that you have created a landed aristocracy \shich has no parallel in wealth or power except the proprietors of English soil.
Sayfa 192 - In order to understand what a market originally was, you must try to picture to yourselves a territory occupied by village communities, self-acting and as yet autonomous, each cultivating its arable land in the middle of its waste, and each, I fear I must add, at perpetual war with its neighbour. But at several points, points probably where the domains of two or three villages converged, there appear to have been spaces of what we should now call neutral ground.
Sayfa 6 - I may venture to affirm that the Comparative Method, which has already been fruitful of such wonderful results, is not distinguishable in some of its applications from the Historical Method.
Sayfa 28 - It is by its indirect and for the most part unintended influence', wrote Sir Henry Maine, the author of Ancient Law, 'that the British power metamorphoses and dissolves the ideas and social forms underneath it, nor is there any expedient by which it can escape the duty of rebuilding upon its own principles that which it unwillingly destroys We do not destroy in mere arrogance.
Sayfa 73 - If I had to state what for the moment is the greatest change which has come over the people of India...
Sayfa 125 - I have several times spoken of them as organized and self-acting ; they in fact include a nearly complete establishment of occupations and trades for enabling them to continue their collective life without assistance from any person or body external to them.
Sayfa 107 - Wherever the climate admits of the finer grass crops, there are the reserved meadows, lying generally on the verge of the arable mark. There is the waste or common land, out of which the arable mark has been cut, enjoyed as pasture by all the community pro indiviso. There is the village, consisting of habitations, each ruled by a despotic paterfamilias. And there is constantly a council of government to determine disputes as to custom.

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