Most Oriental communities live on land which in theory is the property of a despotic sovereign, and neither they nor their families could have the elements of decent existence unless they held the land upon some sort of fixed terms.
Bagehot discusses the relationship between land ownership and the survival of Oriental communities under despotism.
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