Punjab. When their new ruler first visited their district, the Bedi
clan amazed him by petitioning for leave to destroy their infant
daughters. In wrath he briefly told them he would hang every man
found guilty of such murder. When settling the land revenue of the
Cis-Sutlej districts he caused each farmer, as he touched the pen in
acceptance of the assessment, to recite this formula--

"Bewa mat jaláo,
Beti mat máro,
Korhi mat dabao"

("Thou shalt not burn thy widow, thou shalt not kill thy daughters,
thou shalt not bury thy lepers.")

>From the hour of Carey's conversion he never omitted to remember in
prayer the slave as well as the heathen. The same period which saw
his foundation of modern missions witnessed the earliest efforts of
his contemporary, Thomas Clarkson of Wisbeach, in the neighbouring
county of Cambridge, to free the slave. But Clarkson, Granville
Sharp, and their associates were so occupied with Africa that they
knew not that Great Britain was responsible for the existence of at
least nine millions of slaves in India, many of them brought by
Hindoo merchants as well as Arabs from Eastern Africa to fill the
hareems of Mohammedans, and do domestic service in the zananas of
Hindoos. The startling fact came to be known only slowly towards
the end of Carey's career, when his prayers, continued daily from
1779, were answered in the freedom of all our West India slaves.
The East India answer came after he had passed away, in Act V. of
1843, which for ever abolished the legal status of slavery in India.
The Penal Code has since placed the prædial slave in such a