CHAPTER V. 



THE AMLAHS. 



THE amlahs, or native staff of a factory, vary in 

 number and responsibility almost as much as 

 they do in integrity and capability. At a large 

 head factory the amlahs are many, but as the tyro will 

 not come much in contact with some of these during the 

 years of his probation, I will pass them over, merely 

 noticing those amlahs who are indispensable to the 

 outwork, and common to head factory and outwork 

 alike. 



First in the list comes the jemadar, a sort of native 

 personal assistant to the Assistant, equivalent to the 

 English bailiff or Scottish grieve. On this functionary 

 devolves the arranging, ordering, and inspecting of 

 all out-door work ; he is the deus ex machind of the 

 zillah. The cultivation of lands is pre-eminently his 

 province, whilst the choosing of new, and realising 

 of old and worn out lands falls within his jurisdiction, 

 subject to the approval of the Assistant. In a well- 

 ordered outwork, the duties of jemadar should not 

 be to hire any extension of power in collateral direc- 

 tions, this being an inducement to dishonest trans- 

 actions, which the worthy jemadar can rarely, if ever, 



