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2 accepted by the Durbar, and these extensive reforms
3 are being steadily carried out.
4 It now remains to be seen whether the hoped-for
5 «nd will be attained, which is, I will repeat, to benefit
6 the State revenue and extricate Kashmir from her
7 present insolvent condition, and at the same time to
8 convert the cultivators from degraded and oppressed
9 paupers into well-to-do farmers, as in the Punjab.
10 The Sind Valley, which I twice traversed later on,
11 has been settled throughout by Lawrence, and the good
12 results are already manifest. The assamis of that Tahsil
13 are obviously far more prosperous and happy than
14 those in the unsettled districts. The farmers there
15 -expressed themselves as perfectly contented with what
16 had been done; they said that Lawrence Sahib had
17 been their saviour ; they had hitherto been as beasts of
18 the field, but now they felt that they were men.
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