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INTRODUCTION.
with were a population of industrious labourers holding their lands on rents fixed by custom, a system of yeoman communities in possession of varying rights in almost every village, and a number of great landowners generally the representatives of the old Chhattri chieftains, but in a few instances capitalists who had been called into an abnormal position by the abnormal circumstances of the time, elements all knit together by a polity which was older than the oldest tradition, and ready when left to their own unchecked action to resume their ancient places in the immemorial structure.
