On his arrival, however, Clive decided that Nujeem was not fit to rule, and he was soon compelled to retire on a pension of thirty-two lacs of rupees per annum.
Fifty lacs of rupeesto be paid by the maharajah on the ratification of the treaty.
In consideration of this transfer, the rajah should pay to the British government fifty lacs of rupees on the ratification of the treaty, and twenty-five lacs on the 1st of October.
I cannot help it, Robbins," I said as I tendered the baboo five rupees as hush-money.
Veneaty had done this with his eye the moment he saw the rupees on the table, but he said: 'Missis give order, I count.
The little parcel was immediately handed to the Judge, who opened it before all present, and counted out the number of rupees which Timbuckjee had seen Saul Jan count out to Kulmuck.
So without more ado Shunker Das detailed his own virtues, totalled up the money expended in public utility, and wound up with an offer of five thousand rupees towards a new Female Hospital.
In his hands pice turned to annas, annas to rupees, and rupees in their turn to fat.
He happened to be in high good spirits that morning owing to a slip on John Raby's part in regard to the signing of some contract which promised to put rupees into the Lala's private pocket.
The civilian needed no reminder; indeed for the last ten minutes he had been distractingly conscious of a note for a thousand rupeeslying in his despatch-box which might throw-some light on the mysterious disappearances.
The clue spoken of by John Raby lay in the note for a thousand rupees with which Colonel Stuart had paid a portion of his card debts during his last deal in the great game.
The harassed-looking, preoccupied official within had an almost uncanny quickness of perception, so the rupees chinked into their pockets, but produced no effect beyond whining voices and fulsome flattery.
Most men, carrying ten thousand rupees with them, would have applied for a treasure-chest and a police guard; but Major Marsden considered himself quite sufficient security for the roll of currency notes in his breast-pocket.
Practically speaking, he and Marsden were the only sufferers; the latter in having paid up ten thousandrupees which the authorities must otherwise have lost; he, in having restored one thousand out of his honest earnings.
You see there was a chance of his getting a few rupees from old Desouza.
I don't suppose this will please you, the fact is there is a deficit of four thousand five hundred rupees in the private safe of which Colonel Stuart kept the key.
I wish he would; then I could get rid of the paper and be off home by summer with Raby sahib's rupees in my pocket.
She was originally allowed a pension of 100 rupees a month; but for many years this has been withheld, and the Zemindars in the Company’s territory are giving her great trouble respecting some lands, which had been granted her free of rent.
The merchants, who advance money for subsistence, usually give the workman four rupees a man, that is, from 32 to 40 rupees for six months work; but from this the tax must be deducted.
The Raja’s share of the revenue, including the mines, amounted to 3500 rupees a year.
Those who have regular shops in the market-places pay to the Sayer rupees 7.
His whole revenues amounted to about 3000 rupees a-year, and like his predecessors, pure and impure he paid tribute to the Rajas of Karuvirpur.
So if you have three thousand rupees you can spare on a loan, I'll just have them handy in my pocket as a salve to her wounded feelings when I've got my own way.
I have some rupees somewhere, if you want them, Keene.
Upon my soul, it must be rough on them watching it all day long, and knowing that if they could only get you to open the sluice they would get rupees on rupees from the Rajah.
It ended in an offer of ten rupees for a finished picture of that odd, attractive, yellow-brown face.
Yet what else could she expect when her first thought had been one of gratitude for that offer of six thousand rupeesin her pocket?
The idea of bribing the little sahib's servants with his own rupees would please Dalel, and put him into a good temper again; so if this plan matured, her future would ripen with it.
There is the pot if the Huzoor will give ten rupees for it.
He has been going rather fast, and will be none the worse of saving up some more rupees at Hodinuggur.
A dish of oranges stuffed withrupees which the same servant, wise man, kept for himself.
And see that thou pay me back that thousand rupees out of the first batch of horses.
The envoy was empowered either to offer a subsidy of from three to four lakhs of rupees for a term of three years, or by a liberal distribution of presents to the king and his principal ministers, to bribe them into acquiescence.
It had been determined, in the first instance, that twenty lakhs of rupees should be paid by the Ameers of Sindh, as ransom-money, for Shikarpoor.
The same blood flowed in our veins, and we ordered one lakh of rupees to be paid him yearly from the tribute of Sindh, and conferred on him the government of Herat.
They had consented to the terms of a stringent treaty, which had been fastened upon them by the British authorities, and agreed to pay annually three lakhs of rupees for the support of a British subsidiary force in their dominions.
Some, perhaps, knew that he had once been an Afghan monarch, and that he received four thousand rupees a month from the British Government as a reward for his incapacity and a compensation for his bad fortune.
The Rajah of Jyneghur offered him a lakh of rupees a day as soon as the grand army should enter his district.
Losing all patience with him, gave Mithoo, one of the gang, 5 rupees ($2.
The first one's rate was thirty rupees a month that is to say, twenty-seven cents a day; the rate of the others, Rs.
Once they came across a man hiding in a grave --a thief; he had stolen 1,100 rupees from Dhunroj Seith of Parowtee.
This dignitary had formerly been its Rajah, but during Gulab Singh's time was reduced to the post of Vizier, or Prime Minister to nobody in particular, with a salary of some thirtyrupees per annum.
The Zemindars here pay but two rupees a year to the Maharajah, but it seems a hard case that such hardly-subsisting people should have to pay anything whatever in such a sterile dreary territory as they possess.
His land appeared to be about four acres in extent, and for this, he told us, he paid twelve rupees per annum to the Maharajah of Cashmere.
At present he receives six rupees a month, with whatever he can pick up from travellers; not a very large amount in the out-of-the-way little jungle station of Ghureekulla.
The rain seeming quite set in, we determined to discharge our shikarees, and after paying them three rupees each for their week's work, we sent them away perfectly happy, with a few copper caps and a good character apiece.
Regarding the state of the people here, he told me that each house paid a tax of seven rupees per annum to the Maharajah.
These nominal rupees are each value 10 annas, or 1S.
Unless money is no object, I should not advise anyone to engage porters at Mombasa, as equally good men can be obtained at Nairobi, thus saving 20 rupees per head in return railway fares.
They are away for many months at a time on these expeditions, and consequently--as they cannot spend money on the march--they have a goodly number of rupees to draw on their return to Mombasa.
Where are the twenty rupees I gave you for hiring donkeys, and which I particularly ordered should not be expended for any other purpose?
The ordinary infantry pay was raised from seven to nine rupees in 1895.
A poor 'peon', who was to serve under others, and could never hope for an independent charge, would give five hundred rupees for an office which yielded him avowedly only four rupees a month.
His father was then fined nine rupees for giving a false alarm, and Girdhârî fifteen for so unmercifully beating the boy; and they were made to pay on the instant, under the penalty of all being sent off forty miles to the magistrate.
A man who was to receive an avowed salary of seven rupees a month would give him three or four thousand for his post, because it would give him charge of a detached post, in which he could soon repay himself with a handsome profit.
This was agreed to, and the others bet fifty rupees they would have the heaviest bag.
Just because he consorted with men who counted their money in rupees and thought nothing of shouldering their darker-skinned brothers off the pavement, he thought he was entitled to put an editor into his place!
She wasn't sure that her heart didn't go out to him all the more because of that puzzle of noughts and dots and rupees he had thrust into her hands.
Do you know I narrowly missed losing half a lakh of rupees which I had at an agent's here?
He was of a nature so uncontrollably generous, that to be sure he spent five rupees where another would save them, and make a fine show besides; but it is not a man's gifts or hospitalities that generally injure his fortune.
In this way crores of rupees went into the pockets of English shopkeepers and others.
Political" dacoities were soon in vogue again, and in 1905 there was an epidemic of house-breaking in and around Kolhapur, which enriched the club with several thousands of rupees and a few arms.
There is, in addition, an enormous sum hoarded in silver rupees and silver ornaments.
He at once sanctioned on behalf of the Provincial Congress Committee 5000 rupees for the relief of the distressed coolies.
For the last three years his income was about fifty thousand rupees a month.
I had hoped to get from Suddhoo many rupeeswhile he lived, and many more after his death; and behold, he is spending everything on that offspring of a devil and a she-ass, the seal cutter!
Now give me ten more rupees and write as I dictate.
He departed unsteadily, with the promise of some more rupees if anything came of the Sending.
If this were possible, he notified his willingness to give Dana Da ten rupees for the job.
We set off together; and on the way Suddhoo told me that he had paid the seal cutter between one hundred and two hundred rupees already; and the jadoo of that night would cost two hundred more.
A fool's jadoo has been going on for ten days, and has cost Suddhoo many rupees each night.
Property worth many thousands of rupees has often been sold for arrears of eight annas (a shilling) or even less.
Jadu Babu was overjoyed by the recovery of his missing jewel, and pressed another fee of ten rupees on the astrologer.
He asked the bailiff to show him the ledger account, and after spelling through the items laboriously be found that not a pice stood to his credit, although he had paid nearly sixty rupees since the last hist (rent) day.
The latter amounted to nearly a lakh of rupees (£6,666), or about five times his net annual income.
The young lady's father, Jogesh by name, was a commission agent, whose regular earnings did not exceed thirty rupees a month; but he lived in such style that his neighbours believed him to be comfortably off.
He had just eleven rupees and two pice left, which he calculated would last him, with strict economy, for another fortnight.
It does not lack funds, for Mr. Gandhi professes to have gathered in the crore of rupees which he asked for within the appointed twelvemonth.
A brother ensign who was strolling moodily past the group moved a step nearer to Ted and snarled in an undertone: "I've dropped two hundred rupees to-day, thanks to you.
For twentyrupees will I sell it, or, in truth, give it away, rather than that the Heaven-born should be disappointed.
He therefore distributed the sum of five thousand rupees amongst the seventy survivors--a welcome reward for their loyalty and courage.
First, the promise to pay five thousand rupees on one sheet of paper, and then a document that might save Pir Baksh from all consequences of mutiny and murder in the event of his capture by the British.
The penal code provides for the punishment of a man who commits mischief by injuring an animal of the value of ten rupees or upwards, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.
The dealer demands three rupees for them--and the grief-stricken Hindus offer one.
If rupees were dollars, the financial aspect of a Bombay racing day would be important.
Nearly all have to purchase supplies and draw a few sacks of rupees from the bank with which to pay off their coolies.
These go to India as beasts of burden and pleasure, and the government collects two hundred rupees for every elephant sent from the island.
But if the postscript says "1-8th down," the young planter foresees nothing but disaster, and may consider levanting with the bags of rupees by the next steamer from Colombo.
I want to be with my boat, for there is no better diver than I am, and I can earn a hundred rupees a day as easily as any man in Marichchikkaddi.
All Bombay seems to be at the races, irrespective of religious or social distinctions--everyone present loves the horse and appears possessed of a goodly supply of rupees with which to back his selections.
Ordinarily a rupee is sufficient, although for a grandee's cremation a fee of a thousand rupees has sometimes been demanded and paid.
Sadar Singh, who belonged to the Indian Escort of the Agent, had come to pay the fifteen rupees he owed him, and Sadar Singh, who never lied, had that very morning heard the Residency Surgeon talking with the Commissioner Sahib.
To-night the sahib would call and he, Muhafiz Ali, would settle back into an untroubled existence--many rupees the better.
Then: "Didst thou say, O traveller, that thou wouldst take the turban cloth for six rupees and two annas?
Thirty-five rupees extra when it is done, half the price in advance.
He tossed severalrupees upon one of the chests, and turned and went out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rupees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
