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PROHIBITION FOR ECONOMIC AND MORAL
WELL-BEING.
Tipu's memorandum to Mir Sadiq,1787
"......This is a matter in which we must be undeterred and undaunted by financial
considerations. Total prohibition is very near to my heart. It is not a question of
religion alone. We must think of the economic well being and the moral height of our
people and the need to build the character of your youth. I appreciate your concern for
immediate financial loss but should we not look ahead? Is the gain to our treasury to be
rated higher than the health and morality of our people...."
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NO SLAVERY OF ANY KIND.
" 'Since receiving that letter, I have heard that frequently such labour
is being requinsitioned by Amildars either on their own or at the request or several
departments. Therefore, I say this to you, let strict instructions be issued forthwith,
for I see in such a practice the beginnings of a system slavery'.
'There can be no glory or achievements if the foundation of our places, roads and dams are
mingled with the tears and blood of humanity'....."
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TIPU'S METHOD OF PUNISHMENT FOR OFFENCES
"The Ryots of your district, when convicted of offences, are at present fined by
the government. It is ordered that in future these offences shall be commuted; and that
the offender in place of every pagoda of the fine adjudged against him, shall plant 2
Mango trees, and 2 trees of the large jamun in front of his village and to water and tend
them till they are the height of 3 Derras. This order is to be inserted in the Regulation
of the districts".
--The Mysorean Revenue Regulations : No. 126
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