"…the peasants are more oppressed than formerly [and] frequently abscond."
— Poverty in India

January 1, 1970

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Dutch factor, Wollebrand de Jongh Geleynssen on Gujarat in 1629. in in Irfan Habib, The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707,Oxford University Press 2003, quoted from Jain, M. (editor) (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. Volume III Chapter 2