Bengal: Summary of different systems of Government antecedent to 1784 – Reforms introduced by Lord Cornwallis; Permanent settlement; Salt monopoly, Opium monopoly; Revenue Department; Civil Courts of Justice; Criminal Courts of Justice; Police; Benares; Ceded and Conquered Provinces. Fort St. Ge...
Irrigation (Government of India) Commission. (Scott-Moncrieff)
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Report: - Part I. General; Part II. Provincial; Part III. Maps; Part IV. Appendix (Selected Evidence). (Cd. 1851-54). Summary of Terms of Reference: (i) As to utility of works in increasing produce of land or in securing it from effects of failure of rainfall; (ii) Extent and results of State-con...