India's cries to British humanity, relative to the suttee, infanticide, British connexion with idolatry, ghaut murders, and slavery in India; : to which is added humane hints for the melioration of the state of society in British India. / By J. Peggs.

  • Peggs, James, 1793-1850.
Date:
1830
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Credit: India's cries to British humanity, relative to the suttee, infanticide, British connexion with idolatry, ghaut murders, and slavery in India; : to which is added humane hints for the melioration of the state of society in British India. / By J. Peggs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ABSTRACT STATEMENT Of the dumber of Hindoo Widows burnt or buried alive in the Zillah and City Courts of the Bengal Presidency, in the year 1824. COURTS. No. of Suttees. Burdwan 56 c Hooghly 91 .2 Jessore 30 Jungle Mehals .... 16 Q j Midnapore 22 cd Nuddyah 73 P Suburbs of Calcutta 34 jj cd Twenty-four Per- \ 22 o gunnahs $ ^.Baraset 4 Total.. 348 a U Cuttack 11 Khoordah 13 cd ■4-J Balasore 1 P 1 Total.. 25 f Buckergunge 23 G o Chittagong 2 in Noacolly — > City Dacca 7 Dacca Jelalpore . .. 2 u y Mymraensing — cd Q Sylhet /l'ipperah — 6 Total.. 40 fBeerbhoom 3 c o Bhaugulpore — in Monghyr — 'r\ Dinagepore — M cd Maldah 1 City Moorshedaibad 8 cd Purneah 1 y -G Rajshahye — in u* Rungpore 1 O —< Rungpore Com- \ missioner .... S ^ /. Total. . 14 No. of COURTS. Suttees f Behar l G O Monghyr — CO City Patna — > Ramghur 10 Sarum 12 cd G Shahabad 18 2 Tirhoot 1 L Monghyr — Total.. 42 rAgrali — Alligurli 1 Barelly — Shahjehanpore .... 1 Peelebheet G C awn pore 5 O Bhitowra 1 Etawar _ Joint Ditto — Furrackabad — Mooradabad — it cd Nuygeena — 33 Meerut — Boolunshuhur 1 Saharunpore 1 Muzuffer Nugger .. — Deyrah Door — ^Sirpoorah — Total.. 10 f Allahabad 5 . Bithora — 5 Bundlecund, S. Div. 5 CO Bundlecund, N. Div. 2 City Benares 16 CO Ghazeepore 33 cd Gorukpore 17 G CD Juanpore 1 33 Azimgurli 8 1 Mirzapore 6 Total.. 93 Grand Total.. 572