Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.206

v3.c43.t1.206

his example, whose doctrine was the law of the sword, let us do it, but we must not confound might with right: consult custom and tradition throughout India, where traces of originality yet exist, and it will invariably appear that the right in the soil is in the cultivator, who maintains even in exile the *hakk bapota-ka-bhum*, in as decided a manner as any freeholder in England. But Colonel Briggs has settled this point, to those who are not blinded by prejudice.