This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...in everything else. Yet from the very commencement, considerable ingenuity and immense labour have been expended by official writers attempting to prove that allodium, fee simple, copyhold, and even the feudal system generally, or at least their exact equivalents, must have had their home in Dravidam, or Tamil land, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...in everything else. Yet from the very commencement, considerable ingenuity and immense labour have been expended by official writers attempting to prove that allodium, fee simple, copyhold, and even the feudal system generally, or at least their exact equivalents, must have had their home in Dravidam, or Tamil land, hundreds of years before these institutions were developed in Europe. Nothing but confusion, and the endless prolongation of fruitless discussion, can result from the pursuit of such an attempt. This has in fact been the actual result of trying to show what a thing is like, instead of plainly describing what it is. Menu's dictum concerning right in land is as follows: --" Cultivated land is the property of him who cuts away the wood, or who first cleared and tilled it." This definition is equally clear and intelligible, Mirassi right i3 nothing more or less than an extension of a necessary rule to a particular case. Tradition is agreed that tho aborigines of Tondeimandalam were composed of nomad or pastoral races, and that occupation of, or property in the soil commenced with tho settlement of the Vellalan agriculturists whom Adondei Chakravarti Cholan sent under his son to take possession of the country, which he had wrested by force of arms from the aboriginal tribes. The country had first to be cleared. The work was bard, and the Vellalans were unaccustomed to it, and perhaps casting longing eyes back to the more settled territory from which they had been led out to colonize the wilderness (as it was called), appear to have been induced with difficulty to complete the task. There is a distinct tradition of some of them having deserted the undertaking. The manner in which the difficulty was at last overcome, and the son of the Chola a...
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