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Updated: June 8, 2025
"But at that very moment there rang forth the sharp tattoo of a horse's hoofs on the paved courtyard without, followed by the sharp challenge of a sentry, the bang of a matchlock, and then a very babel of excited yelling. "Every one in the audience hall swept outside, even the zemindar, his dignity all forgotten.
"The horses are ready," the zemindar said, "but I pray you to take a meal, before mounting. It is ready, and will be served directly." Harry, who had been too tired to do justice to his food in the morning, was by no means sorry to take another meal. As he rose to go, he thanked the zemindar most heartily for his kindness.
A rich zemindar named Bose lived in Lucknow, He had emigrated there from Bengal, acquired land there, and studied the language until he could speak Urdu like a Hindustanee. He became so much a native of Lucknow that, when business took him down to Calcutta, he felt himself a foreigner and stranger in Bengal.
The firing at once ceased, and in a few minutes a native officer carrying a white flag advanced towards the walls. "We wish to see the Zemindar Por Sing," Bathurst said, "to treat with him upon the subject of our surrender." The officer withdrew, and returned in half an hour saying that he would conduct the officer in command to the presence of the chief of the besieging force.
There was a moment's pause, and then the Doctor said in the native language, "Row on, men," and the oars of both boats again dipped into the water. "We are pressed for time," the young Zemindar shouted, and then, dropping his voice, urged the men to row at the top of their speed. "Stop, or we fire," came from the shore.
Petitions had been presented, judgments had been spoken, and affairs of the day had been discussed, and we, the few close counsellors who tarried, were only awaiting the raised hand that would have bidden us go our several ways. "'Where is Abdul? of a sudden asked the zemindar, casting a glance of inquiry around.
But I must first tell your Lordships, what, till the proof is brought before you, you will take on credit, indeed, it is on his credit, that, when he formed the Committee of Revenue, he bound them by a solemn oath, "not, under any name or pretence whatever, to take from any zemindar, farmer, person concerned in the revenue, or any other, any gift, gratuity, allowance, or reward whatever, or anything beyond their salary"; and this is the oath to which he alludes.
This young man had come to our country only a year or so before, bringing several beautiful Arab horses for sale. These the zemindar had purchased, and had retained Abdul in his service, for the youth was skilled in the management of horses, and in the rearing of young stock.
Bulwant Sing, if he had been, and Cheyt Sing, as long as he was a zemindar, stood exactly in this mean and depraved state by the constitution of his country. I did not make it for him, but would have secured him from it. Those who made him a zemindar entailed upon him the consequences of so mean and depraved a tenure.
This much was known that he had come to Kadampur fifteen years before my tale opens with a brass drinking-pot and blanket, and obtained a humbly-paid office as a clerk under a local Zemindar. In this capacity he made such good use of the means it offered of extorting money that he was able to set up as a moneylender at Simulgachi, close to Kadampur.
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