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Report of the Land Revenue Commission Bengal Landholders’ Replies to the Questionnaire Issued by the Land Revenue Commission and their Oral Evidence

1940

The magnitude of the sum total represents a good effort made by the upper classes of society on this occasion.""7 (Vide Minute of Sir Richard Temple Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal on the services rendered by the zamindars during the famine of 1874.) The said Minute further says about the commendable services of some of the individual zamindars during the famine— Maharaja of Burdwan—This native nob [...] Robinson Relief Commissioner of Dinajpore during the fa/mite of 1874 wrote :— It is impossible to quit the subject of the conduct of the zamindars without reference to the subject of Government revenue; and in a pecuniary point of view I suspect strongly that the zamindars of all classes have probably been the heaviest sufferers by the failure of last year's crops. [...] Adhering thereto the Court of Directors in their despatch dated the 12th April 1786 to the Government of Bengal stated that "we have entered into an examination of our extensive records on the subject of the Revenue of Bengal from a wish to adopt some permanent system compatible with the nature of our Government the actual situation of the Company and the case of the inhabitants." The pledge [...] The initiative and the pecuniary and other assistance of the zamindars is the cause and the increase of culturable lands the increase"15 in population and the enterprise of tenants are effects of one and the same cause and the expectation mentioned in question has been thus amply fulfilled Q. 7. The increase is to be ascribed to the industry and good management of zamindars. [...] On the 20th of October 1883 the Commissioner of the Burdwan division reported to the Government of Bengal as follows :—The Bengal of to-day offers a startling contrast to the Bengal of 1793: the wealth and prosperity of the country have marvellously increased— increased beyond all precedent under the Permanent Settlement a great portion of the increase is due to the zamindari body as a whole an
government politics public policy
Pages
515
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100001
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
Reply by the Jessore Landholders’ Association
1-72 unknown view
Reply by the Khulna Landholders’ Association
73-98 unknown view
Reply by the Malda Landholders’ Association
99-112 unknown view
Reply by the Midnapore Landholders’ Association
113-235 unknown view
Reply by the Midnapore Zamindari Company Limited
236-276 unknown view
Reply by the Mymensingh Landholders’ Association
277-318 unknown view
Reply by the Nadia Landholders’ Association
319-326 unknown view
Reply by the Noakhali Landholders’ Association
327-341 unknown view
Reply by the Sundarban Landholders’ Association
342-359 unknown view
Reply by the Manager Paikpara Raj(Kumar Bimal Chandra Sinha)
360-392 unknown view
Reply by the Chief Manager Tagore Raj(Mr.D.Chatterjee)
393-475 unknown view
Reply by the Additional Manager Burdwan Raj
476-512 unknown view