History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v2.c41.330.2

v2.c41.330.2

He sent his Wakil to Calcutta to lay his complaints before the Council but nobody paid any attention to them. It is not known how much gold "Nabob" Peiarce assimilated from the zamindars of Beloorichor to hand over these eighty-one villages to wrongful possessers from the rightful owners. We must remember that in the eighteenth century British justice in India was tempered to suit the needs of Bengali vermin of the type of Gangāgovind Singh, Nabakrishna De and Krishna Kānta Nandy, who clung to the eighteenth century "Nabobs" of the type of Clive, Vansittart, Verelst and Hastings as parasites. Had Dāmodar Bhañja belonged even to the end of the nineteenth century some justice might have been done to him. The Council resolved to direct the Qānungoe of Jalesvar to come to Calcutta with the papers regarding the claim to these eighty-one villages by the Marathas and Rājā Dāmodar Bhañja. The *Wakil* of Dāmodar Bhañja submitted a representation to the Governor regarding the fort of Amardah and the eighty-one villages appertaining to it. From this we learn that the Rājā withheld payment of the revenue of fifty-two of these amounting to Rs. 1036. Security was demanded from him but he failed to give that too. The Collector of Medinipur entered into an agreement with the *Mālguzārs* for the direct payment of the revenue to the Collector to liquidate the Rājā's debt and thus became *Ijārādārs*.