"Zemindari" Quotes from Famous Books
... content with stealing the produce of the gardens and fields, they will pull off the thatch from the native huts, fling the tiles from the better-built houses and shops to the ground, and we have even seen them try their best to rift the stones from the temples. A native town in one of the zemindary estates was so mutilated by them that it looked as if ... — Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various |