. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . THE MARWARREE. not that he cares a jot for politics, but because well heknows that should disturbances arise, he will probably bethe first to suffer in person as well as property. Marwarrees MARWARREES ALIEN USURERS. 195 are really aliens of Poona and Maharashtra because theyhave their homes in Marwar Rajpootana and Central India,and take or remit their savings to those homes. Theyare traders, some of them on a large scale, in cluth andgrain, in gold and silver, but the majority of them areusu
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . THE MARWARREE. not that he cares a jot for politics, but because well heknows that should disturbances arise, he will probably bethe first to suffer in person as well as property. Marwarrees MARWARREES ALIEN USURERS. 195 are really aliens of Poona and Maharashtra because theyhave their homes in Marwar Rajpootana and Central India,and take or remit their savings to those homes. Theyare traders, some of them on a large scale, in cluth andgrain, in gold and silver, but the majority of them areusurers pure and THE KHOJAH. Taken as usurers they are not bad fellows - at least theycompare favourably with your English Kirkwoods .?/ /locgenus: they usually syndicate their loans, especially whentheir client is a European : they never charge less than 24per cent, often 60 per cent, and they usually get do pawnbroking on a small scale, and will speculate 196 OUR TROUBLES IN POONA AND THE DECCAN. in anything that promises a quick return. They are notcharitable, though they have been known to be guilty (fromtheir point of view) of very generous dealings, especiallytowards Englishmen. In common with all traders they rub their noses, remember-ing how in the good old days Raghojee Bhangria and
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