too much pleasure and enjoyment

“All the people I send into Kashmir turn out haramzada; there is too much pleasure and enjoyment in that country”

~ Maharaja Ranjit Singh to Sir Alexander Burnes of the East India Company.
Came across it in ‘The Abode of Snow: Observations on a journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, through the upper valleys of the Himalaya’ by Andrew Wilson (1875) .

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