Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s2.t2.28

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¹ Compare Tod, II, 1110, for an illustration of the effect of monopoly on the internal trade of Rajputana : ‘Commerce has been almost extinguished within these last twenty years; and paradoxical as it may appear, there was tenfold more activity and enterprise in the midst of that predatory warfare, which rendered India one wide arena of conflict, than in these days of universal pacification. The torpedo touch of monopoly has had more effect on the kitars (i.e., rows of caravans) than the spear of the desert Sahariya.’