Mughal Administration c10.s4.7
Mughal Administration c10.s4.7
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c10.s4.7
concealed from the Court''. (P. 225.) And, again, "Of what advantage are good laws when not observed, and when there is no possibility of enforcing their observance? The governor is absolute lord, in the strictest sense of the word. He is in his own person the intendant of justice, the parliament, the Presidial Court, and the assessor and receiver of the king's taxes...In eastern countries, the weak and the injured are without any refuge whatever; and the only law that decides all controversies is the cane and the caprice of a governor.'' (Pp. 235-236.)