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Early Revenue History of Bengal and the Fifth Report 1812

1917

The Dewan was the finance minister of the province ' responsible for the collection of the revenue the expenditure of government money and the dispeisation of civil justice. [...] The actual details of the development of the East India Company are not of material importance for the explanation of the Fifth Report ; the important feature of the development for the present purpose is the origin of the Company's connexion with the land system. [...] The distinction is very important ; in the former the Company had acquired the full right to the revenue ; in the latter they were required to pay revenue to the Emperor on behalf of the Nazim and to meet all the expenses of the Nazim. [...] This gave to the Company the duty of collecting the revenues of the three provinces on payment of twenty-six läkhs of rupees to the Emperor and of all the expenses of the NTizim's establishment. [...] The scheme aintal at coplete decentralization ; it involved the division of the whole of the provinces into small districts each under the control of the Collector ; the Collector himself made the settlement and collected all the revenue of his district ; the Committee of Revenue merely retained a general power of sanction and cotrol ; the native dewans were abolished and the kanungo was
agriculture environment
Pages
272
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146075
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-6 F.D. Ascoli view
Introduction
7-9 F.D. Ascoli view
Chapter I. Bengal as a Province of the Mughal Empire and the Origin of the British Dominion
10-21 F.D. Ascoli view
Chapter II. The Mughal Revenue Administration
22-29 F.D. Ascoli view
Chapter III. British Revenue Admministration up to 1786
30-37 F.D. Ascoli view
Chapter IV. Revenue Admintstration From 1786-1790 Period IV Decentralization
38-41 F.D. Ascoli view
Chapter V. The Grant-Shore Controversy. Grant’s Case
42-53 F.D. Ascoli view
Chapter VI. The Grant-Shore Controversy. Shore’s Case
54-62 F.D. Ascoli view
Chapter VII. The Shore-Cornwallis Controversy
63-70 F.D. Ascoli view
Chapter VIII. The Effects of the Permanent Settlement
71-84 F.D. Ascoli view
Copy of the Fifth Report From the Select Committee of the House ofCommons on the Afairsof the East India Company
85-261 F.D. Ascoli view
Glossary
262-267 F.D. Ascoli view
Index
268-272 F.D. Ascoli view

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