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Bengal Past & Present. 1951

1951

However the head of all is always (a ?) missionary (religious) of ours as the owner of that strait and as such carries his patents from the Commissar of the Sacred Office as also from the archbishop and in the absence of the latter from his substitute. [...] As the English Company have been put to a great expence and their affairs exposed to danger by the War which the Nabob Shuja-ul-Dowla ujustly and contrary to our royal pleasure waged against them we have therefore assigned to them the country of Gazypoor and the rest of the Zemindary of Bulwant Sing belonging to the Nizamut of the Nabob Shujul-Dowla and the regulation and Government ther [...] The army of the English Company having joined our standard shall put us in possession of Iliabad and the rest of the countries belonging to the Nizamut of the Nabob Shuja-ul-Dowla and the revenues excepting those of Raja Bulwant's Zemindary shall be in our entire managment and disposal. [...] 5. The surplus receipts of the Court of Requests be appropriated to the discharge of the expense of the projected improvements. [...] -We approve of the general object recommended to the attention of the Committee for improving the Town of Calcutta and towards the effecting of which if the Company's finances were in a prosperous state it might be very proper to constitute ; but at no time ought the whole of the expense to be borne by Government" (26).
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Pages
72
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120279
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Debendra Banerjee view
Frontmatter
i-iii Debendra Banerjee view
Portuguese Christian Communities in Bengal 1679 A.D (Report of the Augustin Monks of Goa)
1-6 Talwalkar view
Post-Buxar Negotiations Between Shah Alam II and the English
7-12 Kali Datta view
Lord Wellesley and the Problem of Town Improvement of Calcutta
13-17 Nandalal Chatterji view
Sovereignty in Bengal in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
18-22 N. K. Sinha view
How Local Custom Modifies Scripture
23-33 K. R. Qanungo view
Notes
34-37 Kalipada Mitra view
Beginning of English Education in Orissa
38-41 Kalipada Mitra view
Mayor’s Court and the Indian Residents of Calcutta
42-45 Tarit Mukerji view
Indian Indentured Labour in British Tropical Economy
46-54 Ramji Nowbath view
A Note on Sati
55-57 Narendranath Ganguly view
Pages from Secretary’s Notes
58-61 Narendranath Ganguly view
Calcutta Historical Society
62-66 Debendra Banerjee view
Backmatter
i-ii Debendra Banerjee view

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