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Bengal under the Lieutenant Governors Being a Narrative of the Principal Events and Public Measures During Their Periods of Office from 1854 to 1898

1902

The duties annexed to it embrace the entire control of the Civil Magisterial and Police branches of the adminitration ; of the Land Revenues; of the Salt and Opium monopolies ; of the Abkari or Excise on spirits ; of the Ecclesiastical Marine and Steam Department as well as that of Public Instruction and the Post Office. [...] xii; in the internal ma nagement of the whole of the admitistration the Governor of Bengal is unfettered by the necessity of any reference to the Government of India. [...] Government of India on the 24th idem asked the Court of Directors whether the proper superi authority of the Lteutenant-Go vernor or;Bengal will be the GovernoGeneral-in-Council ?" - In accordance with the despatch of the r 2th October 1853 and on a Minute of Lord Dalhousie's of the loth April i8 54 the Goverment of indil issued a Resolution on the 28th of April 1854 on the subject of the [...] All that the survey professes to do is to record the boundaries of estates and villages the natural features of the country the area and the extent of cultivation the prducts of particular districts the extent of the pressure of the Government revenue on each acre—and other statistical iformation. [...] The purport of this Despatch which has been so momentous in its consequences to Bengal was summaised in the report of the Education Commission of 1882 (Sir W. W. Hunter's) as follows :- The Despatch of 14855 commends to the special attention of the Government of India the improvement and far wider extension of education both English and vernacular and prescribes as the means for the attainment
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Pages
605
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142403
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxx C.E. Buckland view
Chapter I. Frederick James Halliday K. C. B.
1-i unknown view
Chapter II. Sir John Peter Grant K. C. B. G. C. M. G.
163-271 unknown view
Chapter III. Sir Cecil Beaion K. C. S. I.
272-397 unknown view
Chapter IV. Sir William Grey K. C. S. I.
398-481 unknown view
Chapter V. Sir George Campbell M.P. K.C.S.I. D.C.L.
482-571 unknown view

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