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At the Dewallee festival every servant of the Company, from the Governor to the youngest writer, received a 'peshcush' from the brokers and bunyas, which to the younger men were of much importance; as they depended on these gifts to procure their annual supply of clothes.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago 1880
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This history of this Dinagepore peshcush is the public one received by the Company, and which is entered upon the record, -- but not the private, and probably the true history of this corrupt transaction.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Nundulol never did have any thing to do with the Dinagepore peshcush.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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If the Directors had a disposition, and were honest enough to the Proprietors and the nation to inquire into it, there is not a hint given, by either of those persons, who received the Nuddea, who received the Patna, who received the Dinagepore peshcush.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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And what were the terms these poor people were obliged to consent to, to answer the bribes and peshcush paid to Mr. Hastings?
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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My Lords, you are not very much enlightened, I believe, by seeing these words, _Dinagepore peshcush_.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Very soon after this decision, very soon after this peshcush was given, we find all the officers of the young Rajah, who was supposed to have given it, turned out of their employment by Gunga Govind Sing, -- by the very man who received the peshcush for Mr. Hastings.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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The first of those presents is known in the country by the name of _peshcush_: this
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Now whether the peshcush was received for the nomination of the Rajah as a bribe in judgment, or whether Mr. Hastings got it from
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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To show your Lordships this, we shall give in evidence, that, whenever a peshcush or fine is paid, it is a sum of money publicly paid, and paid in proportion to the grant, -- and that the sum is entered upon the very grant itself.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
hernesheir commented on the word peshcush
"I, who am not conversant in Indian terms, understand something a little analogous to a fine paid upon the renewal of a lease, such as is paid in this or any other European country." -- Speech of the Rt. Hon. C.J. Fox, 7 June 1790, in Speeches of the Managers and Counsel in the Trial of Warren Hastings, Vol. 2, E.A. Bond, ed. London. Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, p. 356.
January 4, 2013