The Land Systems of British India. Being A Manual of the Land-Tenures and of the Systems of Land-Revenue Administration Prevalent in the Several Provinces

The legal powers which the representatives of the Copany possessed under the first Charters were conferred with the sole view of providing for the control of the military and naval forces and the internal. [...] In tracing the progress of the Madras Land-Revenue System it will be advisable in the first place tt review the general course of acquisition by which the Madras districts became British and next to describe in a brief and general manner the various stages of the history of the early revenue management. [...] (3) The ' West Coast' consists of the British districts of 1 The Nawkib of the Kkirnatik or Arcot !vas a dertndant of the Saba or viceroyalty of the Dakhan. [...] The history of the Jagir districts is a still sadder one 1. When granted to the British the management was left in the hands of the Nawab of the Carnatic who rented the whole country for an annual sum. [...] What with the extent of these districts and the failure and dissolution of a large number of mutthds and some of the Zaminddris in the older districts the area available to be settled on some other system than the Zamindari was not only large but in fact formed by far the greater portion of the Presidency.