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Historical Introduction to the Bengal Portion of “The Fifth Report.”

1917

The plan of manaing the whole business of the revenue at the Presidency without the assistance of reponsible local agents was soon found to be impracticable and the withdrawal of the Colectors to have been a mistake. [...] They wrote " We observe the account you give of the Powers of the King's Dewan which in former times was the collection of all the revenues or atter defraying the expenses of the arm); and allowing a sufficient fund for the support of the Nizamut to remit the remainder to Delhi... [...] In consideration of regular payments of fixed sums agreed upon the Company as zarmindar was authorised to receive the revenue-dues of the inhabitants and to retain for their Own advantage the profit arising in the difference betwett thg stipulated payment t.p the Mughal Treasury and ttie total collected by the Company from the occupants of the soil. [...] (3) The plan of administering tIte country under what Clive called." the masked system " that is to say of administering Bengal in the interests of the Company while maintaining the sovereignty of the Mughal might appear to the Conkany's servants iu Bengal a policy well adapted to the season and circumstances of the English occupation ; but with its interest in Western and Southern India at st [...] It will thus appear that the grant of the Diwagi in 1765 was a cession to the East India Company of the military Government of the three provinces of Bengal Behar and Orissa of the right to administer civil Justice and of the complete control of the finances subject to a payment of twenty-six lakhs td the Emperor and providing the expenses of administering criminal justice and the maintenance
government politics public policy
Pages
413
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144562
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii Walter Firminger view
Preface
1-4 Walter Firminger view
Summary View of Charges in Organisation of the Revenue Administration 1769-1787
5-18 Walter Firminger view
Chapter I.Conquest and Sovereignty
i-xxi Walter Firminger view
Chapter II.The Broken-Down Mughal Government
xxii-li Walter Firminger view
Chapter III.The Coming of the English to Bengal 1630-1698
lii-lxiv Walter Firminger view
Chapter IV. The Company Becomes Zamindar
lxv-lxxviii Walter Firminger view
Chapter V. The Mayors Court
lxxix-xciii Walter Firminger view
Chapter VI. The English Acquire the Twenty-Four Parganahs
xciv-cxii Walter Firminger view
Chapter VII. The Ceded Lands
cxiii-cxxxvi Walter Firminger view
Affairs of the East India Company
57-312 Walter Firminger view