Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c6.s3.13

c6.s3.13

48. It is scarcely credible that the amount of the tax should have been considered a serious burden by any description of people, excepting perhaps the most indigent, some of the religious orders, and individuals who with very scanty means had come from religious motives, to pass the remnant of their days at the city of Benares.