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Ghazipur. Supplementary Notes and Statistics to Volume XXXIX of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

1915

The importance of the crop is greater than in any other district of the division and this is doubtless due to the selection of Ghazipur as the head quarters of the Benares Agency which includes almost the whole of the United Provinces."ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS. [...] In 1821 the charge of the Agency was given.to an Opium Agent and the Collectors of the poppy growing districts were designated Deputy Agents the district management of the cultivtion and collection of opium being in the hands of gomashtas or native assistants. [...] The Assistant Agents have charge of one or more sub-diviskns and their duties are similar to those of the Sub-Deputy Opium Agents the latter being responsible to the Opium Agent who in turn is responsible to the Board of Revenue and the Government of the United Provinces. [...] The control of the Agency by the Government of Bengal dates from the separation of the North-Western Provinces in 1835 when it was decided that the management of the Department should remain with the Board of Customs a body subordinate to the Local Government of the Lower Provinces. [...] The Factory comprises six distinct enclosures including the Superintendent's house on the bank of the river the quarters for the Factory Engineer and one Assistant in the north-west corner the guard lines on the north built on either side of the road leading into the city and the large compound between the west wall of the main building and the public road in which are situated the Superinte
government politics public policy
Pages
60
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Notes for the ‘B’ Volume of the Gazetteer of the Ghazipur District 1901-1911
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Gazetteer of Ghazipur. Appendix
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