The haycocks in Bundelkhand are a pleasant
sight to English eyes. Edgeworth's list of plants found in the Banda
district, as revised by Messrs. Waterfield and Atkinson, is given in
_N.W.P. Gazetteer_, 1st ed., vol. i, pp. 78-86.
CHAPTER 20
The Men-Tigers.
Ram Chand Rao, commonly called the Sarimant, chief of Deori,[1] here
overtook me. He came out from Sagar to visit me at Dhamoni[2] and,
not reaching that place in time, came on after me. He held Deori
under the Peshwa, as the Sagar chief held Sagar, for the payment of
the public establishments kept up by the local administration. It
yielded him about ten thousand a year, and, when we took possession
of the country, he got an estate in the Sagar district, in rent-free
tenure, estimated at fifteen hundred a year. This is equal to about
six thousand pounds a year in England. The tastes of native gentlemen
lead them always to expend the greater part of their incomes in the
wages of trains of followers of all descriptions, and in horses,
elephants, &c.; and labour and the subsistence of labour are about
four times cheaper in India than in England.
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