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There remained the reading of papers, filled with words unintelligible to English ears, with lacs and crores, zemindars and aumils, sunnuds and perwannahs, jaghires and nuzzurs.
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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It is affirmed that the aumils and renters exact from the proprietors of the actual harvest
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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If none comes, whatever quantity will be necessary every month I will mention to the aumils, that they may bring it for sale: but there is no deficiency of grain.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Darunghur, and Furruckabad, and other places, write purwannahs, and give positive orders to the aumils of these places, respecting the grain, &c.; from which conduct the country will become depopulate.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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I ground my fears on the knowledge I have had of his mismanagement, the bad choice he has made of his aumils, the mistrust which they have of him, and the several complaints which have been preferred to me by the ryots of almost every purgunnah in the zemindary.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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In old debts of fifty years, whoever complain to the gentlemen, they agree that they shall pay one fourth, and send dustucks and sepoys to all the aumils, the chowdries, and canongoes, and inhabitants of all the towns; they send for everybody, to do them justice, confine them, and say they will settle the business.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Furruckabad, &c., the duties from the lilla of Gora and Thlawa are destroyed, and occasion a loss of three lacs of rupees to the duties; and the losses that are sustained in Furruckabad may be ascertained by the Nabob Muzuffer Jung, to whom every day complaints are made: exclusive of the aumils and collectors, others lodge complaints.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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The officers and gentlemen who are at Cawnpore, and Futtyghur, and Darunghur, and other places, by different means act very tyrannically and oppressively towards the aumils and ryots and inhabitants; and to whomsoever that requires a dustuck they give it, with their own seal affixed, and send for the aumils and punish them.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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These practices are not to be imputed to the aumils employed in the districts, but to the Naib himself.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Mr. Briscoe is at Darunghur; and the complaints of the aumils arrive daily.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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