Might they not have left the jaghiredars to raise the sums required by some settlement with the bankers of Benares, in which the repayment of the money within five or six years might have been secured, and the jaghiredars have had in the mean time something to subsist upon?
Burke proposes an alternative solution for financial issues that would allow local nobility to maintain their livelihoods while repaying debts.
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