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99 favourite, without inflicting on him the punishment that he deserves.

Pay their salaries without fail in the first week of every month. Help them with money in marriages, &c., or by paying their salaries in advance when they need such help. Make rules for every sort of pecuniary help you wish to show to your servants, and also in some cases to your ryots. Then you will have no botheration in that matter. On the whole, you should become so popular with your people that even those that have been punished by you for their faults should not say a word against you, but should always evince loyal feelings towards you.