LONDON:

Printed by Littlewood & Co.

Old Bailey.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUM E.

PART III.-CHAPTER II.

ON THE EFFECTS OF THE REVENUE SYSTEM OF INDIA

AS REGARDS THE TREATMENT AND CONDITION

OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE REVOLUTION IT

IN THE STATE OF LANDED

HAS OCCASIONED

PROPERTY.

PART IV.

AN EXPOSITION OF THE RESULTS OF THE EAST

INDIA COMPANY'S TRADE IN A POLITICAL AND

FINANCIAL POINT OF VIEW, FROM 1600 TO THE

PRESENT TIME.

ON THE EFFECTS OF THE REVENUE SYSTEM OF INDIA
AS REGARDS THE TREATMENT AND CONDITION OF
THE PEOPLE, AND THE REVOLUTION IT HAS OCCA-
SIONED IN THE STATE OF LANDED PROPERTY.

SECT. I. Introductory remarks. Principles and effects
of the Mussulman financial system. Its chief
pro-
vincial officers. An Indian Soubah compared with
a Turkish Pachalic. Mussulman exactions ......

SECT. II.-Canongoes and Putwaries no check on the mis-

deeds of their superiors in office. Prescribed duties

of the principal Mogul revenue officers. Impracti-

cability of the Musssulman system. Its effects on

the state and condition of the people. Conduct

of Mogul provincial officers at direct variance with

the tenor of their instructions..

SECT. III. State of Bengal after transfer of the Dewanny

to the Company in 1765.

Governor Verelst in 1769.

Description thereof by

Continued to a late pe-

riod under the British Government, and proved by

facts quoted from official records

SECT. IV.-State of the Madras Provinces. Case of

Causey or Cass Chitty. Exactions of native re-

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venue servants universal in the collectorships under

Madras

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SECT. V. Inefficiency of the revenue and judicial

regulations to protect the Ryots. Judicial power

vested in revenue officers for the more effectual

detection and punishment of abuses. Effects of

this change, and of the system generally, as far as

can be traced from the printed official records
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SECT. VI. Effects of the system on the conduct and

views of collectors. Hasty additions to the public

revenue. Sacrifice and violation of private rights.

Compulsory surrender of property

SECT. VII. Subject continued

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Public sales of estates

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to liquidate arrears of revenue. Fraudulent tranfers.

Abuses in the revenue administration enumerated in

the preamble to Reg. I. of 1821. Remarks thereon. 153

SECT. VIII. - Attempts of Government to encrease the

public revenue by resuming rent-free lands, and lands

supposed to be fraudulently alienated. Opinions of

the Court of Directors thereon. Different view

taken by the Bengal Government, and power of de-

ciding cases of this description vested in revenue

collectors

166

SECT. IX. Views of the Court of Directors in respect to

periodical encrease of revenue-Long leases, and con-

sequences thereof. Court's prepossession in favour

of existing system of land-revenue. Its influence

on the conduct of public servants abroad. Effects

of the system in preventing the accumulation of ca-

pital. Concluding remarks on the preceding de-

tails
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