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Bengal Past & Present. July-September 1933

1933

The addition of factories was due partly to the increasing volume of the private trade of the English and the Governor in his letter (18) to the Nawab dated April 23 1762 rightly argued that commerce had lately increased owing to greater security and that the prosperity of the country would be still further enhanced by this increasing trade. [...] (iv) Another ground of complaint against the gentlemen of the factories was their practice of giving loans to the zemindars or to the "mutasaddis" of the Nawab. [...] The Nawab however demanded the total abolition of the private trade of the English gentlemen but this the Governor had no authority to assent to witout the concurrence of the Council (50). [...] Obviously the Governor played into the hands of the Nawab in yielding on the point of the duties and agreeing to surrender the right of the Company's servants to trade duty-free. [...] Vansittart went to the length of agreeing (59) to all the other prposals of the Nawab :- (1) The Chief of the factories should be instructed not to oppress the ryots and protect his dependents ; (2) The Faujdars should be permitted to try any offending gumashtah ; (3) The Chiefs of Chittagong and Lakhipur must not work the salt-pans themselves ; (4) The Chiefs and gumashtahs of the factories s
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Pages
74
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120279
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i unknown view
Frontmatter
i-iii unknown view
“The Mission of Messrs. Vansittart and Hastings to Mir Qasim”
1-13 Nandalal Chatterji view
Events Leading to the Ambela Expedition—1863
14-22 R.R. Sethi view
Glimpses of Serampore (1810-20)
23-25 unknown view
An Unpublished Letter of Major James Rennell Dated Bengall August 31 1765
26-31 D.B. Diskalkar view
“Hindoo” Stuart
32-33 Evan Cotton view
A Forgotten Graveyard at Dum Dum
34-36 J. Macdonald view
Extracts from the “Indian Gazette” 1781-1786
37-41 unknown view
Madam Grand (an Aberdeen Legend)
42-47 unknown view
The Father of Warren Hastings
48-50 unknown view
The Daniells at Patna
51-51 C.E.A.W.O view
The Late “Sydney C. Crier”
52-53 Evan Cotton view
The Editor’s Note-Book
54-ii unknown view
Erratum
i-i unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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