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'Nor keep a dog, nor shoot a partridge in the jungle, I am told,'
said the Nawab.
'Quite true, Nawab Sahib.'
'Hindustan, sir,' said he, 'is, after all, the best country in the
world; the only thing wanted is a little more (_rozgar_) employment
for the educated classes under Government.'
'True, Nawab Sahib, we might, no doubt, greatly multiply this
employment to the advantage of those who got the places, but we
should have to multiply at the same time the taxes, to the great
disadvantage of those who did not get them.'
'True, very true, sir,' said my old friend.
Notes:
1. January, 1836.
2. Faridpur is a mistake for Faridabad, a small town sixteen miles
from Delhi, founded in 1607 by Shaikh Farid, treasurer of Jahangir,
to protect the high road between Agra and Delhi.
3. The beds are dry in the cold season, but the streams, which flow
from the hills to the south of Delhi, are torrents in the rainy
season.
4. But the education in such schools is of very little value, being
commonly confined to the committing of the Koran to memory by boys
ignorant of Arabic.
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