All Indian villages were regarded as having beenoriginally constituted in a single (typical) form; this form being, consequently,spoken of as archaic date and of Aryan parentage. So conceived, the villagecommunity was asserted to represent a group of persons or households who cul-tivated and owned their land in common;No wonder, then, that there exists no government by which so much is written and so little done, as the Government of India. When the East India Company was only a commercial association, they, of course, requested a most detailed report on every item from the managers of their Indian factories, as is done by every trading concern. When the factories grew into an Empire, the commercial items into ship loads of correspondence and documents, the Leadenhall clerks went on in their system, which made the Directors and the Board their dependents; and they succeeded in transforming the Indian Government into one immense writing-machine. Source: the New-York Daily Tribune, July 20, 1853;