. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . THE WANEE OR GOOZUR. after bad. He too is very charitable, usually kind, oftenindeed generous, to his employes. The Marwarree is a curious combination of Shylock andHarpagon. All is fish that comes to his net -he is a boldspeculator and will venture his money to people of allraces and castes, long after other Sowkars have refused 13 194 OUR TROUBLES IN POONA AND THE DECCAN. credit; he exacts his pound of flesh to the last shred andis therefore a great patron of the law Courts; he takescare to
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . THE WANEE OR GOOZUR. after bad. He too is very charitable, usually kind, oftenindeed generous, to his employes. The Marwarree is a curious combination of Shylock andHarpagon. All is fish that comes to his net -he is a boldspeculator and will venture his money to people of allraces and castes, long after other Sowkars have refused 13 194 OUR TROUBLES IN POONA AND THE DECCAN. credit; he exacts his pound of flesh to the last shred andis therefore a great patron of the law Courts; he takescare to be well informed of the trend of public feeling,. 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 simple.
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