Raja Chait Singh’s Kist; Demand for Raja’s Cavalry; Advances to officers on the march Remission of money to major Camac; Captain Eaton’s complaint – Letter from Resident at Benares, &c.
Political situation in India; View of the general situation on return of Colonel Upton from Poona, July 1777, and probable disposition of several powers interested in disputes between British Government and the Marathas; Accounts, 1772-7. Territorial revenues, bond and other debts; Distribution o...
Expenditure of India. Royal (Welby) Commission. First Report and Appendices, Vols. I, II, III., and IV. (C.8258, 8259; Cd. 130 and 131)
Scope & Content:
Subject of Enquiry: Administration of the Military and Civil expenditure, and the apportionment of charges between the Governments of the United Kingdom and of India for the purposes in which both are interested. – I. Financial machinery. II. Progress of expenditure. III. Apportionment of charges.
Appendix III. – Chapter I. Evidence in reply to inquiries (C.3086 III)
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Rainfall; Past famines; Agricultural statistics; Protection from drought; Staple food grains; manure and rotation of crops; Agricultural improvement; Population engaged in agriculture; Daily life and circumstances of cultivators; Systems of land tenure; Improvements by land owners; Law of improve...
Petitions from John Touchet and John Irving, Agents for British subjects residing in Bengal, Behar, and Orissa; from Warren Hastings, Philip Francis, and Edward Wheler, Councillors for the Government of Fort William in Bengal, and from the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies. Report from Committee of the House of Commons. (General Smith, Chairman)
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Subject of Enquiry: Proceedings and claims of the Supreme Court of Judicature so far as those proceedings and claims are alleged to affect the exercise of the powers of legal government, the peace and security of the provinces, the administration of civil and criminal justice, the collection of t...