This country of Cuttah, which formerly depended on the Rohilla States, and which I consider as now appertaining to the Company, was very populous and flourishing; but since the commencement of the Nabob Vizier's government, the farmers appointed by his ministers have desolated the country.
Burke describes the decline of Cuttah, once prosperous, due to the mismanagement of the Nabob Vizier's government.
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