ON THE

PRESENT POLITICAL STATE

3315

OF

INDIA;

EMBRACING

OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTER OF THE NATIVES, ON THE
CIVIL AND CRIMINAL COURTS, THE ADMINISTRATION

OF JUSTICE, THE STATE OF THE LAND-TENURE,

THE CONDITION OF THE PEASANTRY,

AND THE

INTERNAL POLICE OF OUR EASTERN DOMINIONS;

INTENDED CHIEFLY AS

A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION IN THEIR DUTIES,

FOR THE

YOUNGER SERVANTS OF THE COMPANY.

BY

ALEXANDER FRASER TYTLER,

LATE ASSISTANT-JUDGE IN The 24 pergunNAHS, BENGAL ESTABLISHMENT.

Omnium autem rerum, nec optius est quidquam ad opes tuendas, quàm
diligi, nec alienius quàm timeri.

Non jam sunt mediocres hominum libidines, non paucæ insidiæ ac toleran-
dæ nihil agitant nisi cædem, nisi incendia, nisi rapinas.

SECOND EDITION.

VOL. II.

CIC.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR BLACK, PARBURY, & ALLEN,
BOOKSELLERS TO THE HONOURABLE EAST-INDIA COMPANY,

LEADENHALL STREET.

CONTENTS

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VOLUME SECOND.

CHAP. IV.

Continuation of the Causes of Delinquency.-

Want of a Superintending Board of Police.-

Receivers of Stolen Property not sufficiently

punished.-Methods proposed for their Detec-

tion, and Conviction-The allowing Felons

and others who have escaped from the Jails, or

have been summoned on other Trials, and then

absconded, to remain at large in the several

Districts.--Want of Employment for Released

Prisoners.

CHAP. V.

Continuation of the Causes of Delinquency.-Evils

of the Mahajuny System in some parts of the

Country.

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