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Analytical Survey of Bengal Regulations (And Acts of Parliament Relating to India Up to 1833)

1943

It is in this light that the author appraises the lapses and incongruities in the Regulations ; but the worst according to the author was the manner in which the Company diverted the revenues realised by them in Bengal to meet the deficits in Madras and Bombay and to defray the costs of the wars in which the Company got involved in other parts of India besides meeting the demands upon them in En [...] The rapid decline of the Mughal Empire from this time and the inability of the Subandar to protect his subjects against the raids from the Maharattas strengthened the position of the Company. [...] the collections and disposal of the revenues * * (and) should extend to nothing beyond the superintending of the collections of the revenues and the receiving of the money from the Nawab's Treasury 17 to that of the Dewany of the Company." This looks as if the Court of Directors imagined (as curtly observed by Firminger) that " all thait behoved their servants to do was to lie Revenue and bene [...] the laws to be followed were to be the laws of the Koran in the case of Mithammadans and those of the Shustrus in the case of the Gentoos " and that on all such occasions " the Maulvis or _Brahmins shall respectively attend to expound the law sign the report and assist in preparing the judgment." (Regulation dated the 15th August 1772.) 20. [...] The obvious intention of the Act of 1773 was to restrict the Regulations and Ordinances of the Governor-General and Council to the natives of the country ; and the controversy over.i1111S(11(41011 both civil and criminal over jurisdiction.
government politics public policy
Pages
547
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147176
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii M.N. Gupta view
Chapter I Introduction
1-53 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter II Administration of Criminal Justice
54-133 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter III Police Administration
134-157 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter IV Administration of Civil Justice
158-274 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter V Land Revenue
275-301 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter VI Customs and Inland Duties
302-352 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter VII Salt
353-368 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter VIII Opium
369-385 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter IX Abkari
386-403 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter X Stamp-Duties
404-418 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter XI Coins and Mint
419-443 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter XII Miscellaneous
444-467 M.N. Gupta view
Chapter XIII Charters and Acts of Parliment
468-526 M.N. Gupta view
General Index
527-534 M.N. Gupta view
Errata
i-i M.N. Gupta view