Observations on the breeding of horses, within the Provinces under the Bengal establishment, submitted to the consideration of the President and members of the Board of Superintendence [of the East India Company, 1814].

  • Moorcroft, William.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Observations on the breeding of horses, within the Provinces under the Bengal establishment, submitted to the consideration of the President and members of the Board of Superintendence [of the East India Company, 1814]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( .ss ) ■ ^ Because bolding land wotdd ensure more atixîntion to 1Ъе buHrarrovomcnt wouw ^ not be i>crpetiutea. stock, and this would prevent degeneracy for a time. But through such breeders improvement could not be stea¬ dily progressive, could not be permanent. It would last no longer than whilst actively supported by Government. Left to itself the breed Avould disappear : even if the Mares were given to the farmers ; for apprehension of disgrace would prevent respectable men keeping good Stallions for hire. As soon, therefore, as the Government Stallions would be worn, out, the indigent Nalbund would bring forward his bad Horse, and degeneracy must follow. To remove the Nalbunds луоиМ not remove the evil. Other people of law casts would supply their place. The same cause would produce the same effect. The breed would perish. Let us take a summary retrospect of what has hap- Retrospect of Horeo- pened respecting Horse breeding in India, under the Moohummudan Emperors, under Hindoo Rajahs, under the British Government. The MooBulmans tried it on an extended scale, and if by tlic Moosolmao^ they left the breeds to themselves, even for a short time, found that they invariably declined, as in the beginning of the reign of Sooltan Ala-ood-deen Ghoree, after the death of Feroze Shah, and in late days, after that of Hafiz Hahmut. The Khumbaet Rajahs formed a breed, the Kathee- ■war, at an expense almost exceeding belief. Thia has lasted longer than many others, from local circumstances, and from its former extension, but now touches upon ite ruin. The race established by Rajahs Bulwunt Singh and ву Bh1wu»i Cheyt Singh, after having been maintained by fairs, and by annual importation of Stallions and Mares for 17 years, left merely faint traces of its former existence, only 15 years after the accustomed support was withdrawn. The Honorable (Company have encouraged Horse-breeding and Ъу iho. Ноо Сов for 19 years, and there is, unfortunately, no reason for