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Royle, Dr R. The productive resources of India. 1840.
SHORE, F. J. Notes on Indian affairs. 2 vols. 1837.


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British Ind:a. 1837.
THORNTON, EDWARD. India: its state and prospects. 1835.
Chapters of the modern history of India. 1840.
TREVELYAN, C. E. Papers transmitted from India. 1830.
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GENERAL
AUBER, P. Rise and progress of British power in India. 2 vols. 1837.
Bengal Past and Present. Calcutta, 1907, etc.
BEVERIDGE, H. Comprehensive history of India. 3 vols. 1867.
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Mill, JAMES. History of British India. 5th ed. with notes and continuation by
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Muir, Ramsay. The making of British India. Manchester, 1915.
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BOULGER, D. Lord William Bentinck. Oxford, 1892.
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CHAPTERS II and xmı
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IN BENGAL, 1818-1918
UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS
Apart from the administrative records of the separate districts, these consist
especially of the revenue, judicial and public proceedings of the Bengal govern-
ment, and the proceedings of the Board of Revenue, which for a long period acted
as the effective government of the province. For the papers preserved at the India
Office, the reader should consult Sir William Foster's Guide to the India Office Records.
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the Catalogue of the English records of the Government of Bengal. The Bengal government
has also published a series of indexes to the dispatches exchanged with the home
government. These comprise:
Select index to the general letters from the court of directors in the Judicial
Department, 1785-1854. 1924.
Select index to general letters to and from the court of directors in the Revenue,
etc. Departments, 1771-1858. 1926.
Select index to general letters to and from the court of directors in the Separate
Revenue, etc. Departments, 1765-1854. 1926.
Select index to general letters to the court of directors, 1793–1858, and from the
court of directors, 1827-9, in the Judicial Department. 1927.
Select index to general letters to and from the court of directors in the Public,
etc. Departments, 1834–56. 1927.
PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS
The Parliamentary Papers include the following:
Report on the excise system in Bengal, 1856, vol. XXVI.
Report of the Indigo Commission, 1865, vols. XLIV, XLV.
Reports of the Bengal Sanitary Commission, 1866, vol. lm, and 1867, vol. LII.
Report of the Indian Police Commission, 1905, vol. LVII.
Report of the Indian Excise Committee, 1907, vol. Lyil.
Report of the Decentralisation Commission, 1909, vols. XLIV-XLVI.
For the parliamentary enquiries of 1833 and 1853, see p. 605, supra.
Bengal Administration Reports (annual), 1858-9 to 1918-19 (especially the volume
for 1911-12, which contains a valuable historical review).
CHAKRABATTI, RAI MANOHAN. Summary of changes in the jurisdiction of districts
in Bengal, 1757–1916. Calcutta, 1918.
MARTIN, MONTGOMERY. The history, antiquities, topography and statistics of
Eastern India. 3 vols. 1838. (Based on the reports of Francis Buchanan.
But large sections of these were omitted by Martin. To some extent this has
been made good by the textual publication of Buchanan's reports relating to
the districts of Bhagalpur (Patna, 1930), Patna and Gaya (Patna, 1925),
Shahabad (Patna, 1926) and Purnea (Patna, 1928). Reference should also
be made to the series of district gazetteers for the province. )
Report of the Bengal District Administration Committee. Calcutta, 1915.
OTHER WORKS
BADEN-POWELL, B. H. Land systems of British India. 3 vols. Oxford, 1892.
The land revenue and its administration in British India. Oxford, 1907;
BADR-UD-DIN AHMAD.
“Old judicial records of the Calcutta High Court. (Proc.
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BUCKLAND, C. E. Bengal under the lieutenant-governors from 1854 to 1898.
Calcutta, 1901.
BUTLER, Major JOHN. Travels and adventures in the province of Assam during a
residence of fourteen years. 1855.
CAMPBELL, George. Modern India. 1853.
Memoirs of my Indian career. 2 vols. 1893.
CARSTAIRS, R. The little world of an Indian district officer. 1912.
Field, C. D. The Regulations of the Bengal Code. Calcutta, 1875.
Fraser, Sir ANDREW. Among Indian rajas and ryots. 1911.
Gait, E. A. History of Assam. Calcutta, 1906.
HUNTER, W. W. Orissa. 2 vols. 1872.
Inquiry into the causes of the stationary condition of India and its inhabitants with
an examination of the leading principles of two of the most approved revenue
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JACK, J. C. Economic life of a Bengal district. 1916.
KAYE, Sir John. The administration of the East India Company. 1853.
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Calcutta, 1925.
Permanent settlement emperilled, or the act of 1859. 1865
PHILLS, ARTHUR. Land tenures of Lower Bengal. 1876.
Ram Mohun Roy. Exposition of the practical operation of the judicial ans'
revenue systems of India. 1832.
SHAKESPEARE, Col. L. W. History of Upper Assam. 1914.
TAYLER, WILLIAM. Thirty-eight years in India. 2 vols. 1881.
[WATSON, Col. ARCHIBALD. ) Memoir of the late David Scott. Calcutta, 1832.
Zamindari settlement of Bengal. 2 vols. Calcutta, 1879.
CHAPTERS III and xv
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IN MADRAS, 1818-1918
UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS
The chief documents are the revenue and judicial proceedings of the Madras
government, preserved in the Madras Record Office and in the India Office, and
the proceedings of the Madras Board of Revenue. Many of these have been
printed but not published. These include early settlement reports of great value,
and the annual reports of the Board of Revenue. The Madras records have been
fully catalogued. For the papers at the India Office, see Sir William Foster's
Guide.
PUBLISHED DOCUMENTS
The Parliamentary Papers include the following:
Condition of the presidency, 1830, vol. xxvni, and 1860, vol. Lu.
Report on the excise system, 1856, vol. XXVI.
Mohaturpha, 1857 (session 2), vol. XXIX.
Torture, 1854-5, vol. XL.
Report of the Police Commission, 1905, vol. LVII.
Report of the Indian Excise Committee, 1907, vol. LVII.
Report of the Decentralisation Commission, 1909, vols. XLIV-XLVI.
For the parliamentary enquiries of 1833 and 1853, see p. 605, supra.
Local legislation consisted of the Madras Regulations, 1802-34, and the Madras
Acts, 1862-1919.
Annual Administration Reports, 1858–9 to 1918-19.
Standing Orders of the Board of Revenue (various editions).
Annual Reports of the Board of Revenue.
The series called Selections from the Madras Records include the following among
others:
Disturbances in Parla Kimedy, 1832-6.
Papers relating to public instruction.
Revision of the land revenue in South Arcot.
Decrees regarding the mutual rights of land-holders and tenants in Malabar.
General revenue surveys.
Commutation rates.
Précis of papers relating to Jeypur.
Papers respecting judicial systems. Madras, 1916.
The district manuals, revised and republished as the district gazetteers, contain
a great mass of information drawn from the district and cther records of
government.
OTHER WORKS
ARBUTHNOT, Sir A. J. Minutes of Sir Thomas Munro. Madras, 1886.
BADEN-Powell, B. ¥. The Indian village community. 1896.


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BADEN-POWELL, B. H. Land systems of British India. 3 vols. Oxford, 1892.
BAYLEY, W. H. and HUDDLESTON, W. Papers on mirasi rights. 1862.
BRADSHAW, JOHN. Sir Thomas Munro. Oxford, 1906.
BUTTERWORTH, A. The southlands of Siva. 1923.
CAMPBELL, Major-Gen. JOHN. Narrative of his operations in the hill tracts of
Orissa for the suppression of human sacrifices and female infanticide. 1861.
Thirteen ycars' service amongst the wild tribes of Khondistan. 1864.
“Civilian. ” The civilian's South India. 1921.
DYKES, W. j. B. Salem. 1853.
Hope, Lady. General Sir Arthur Cotton, his life and work. 1900.
KAYE, Sir John. The administration of the East India Company. 1853.
MACLEANE, C. D. Manual of the administration of the Madras Presidency. 1885.
Morris, Henry. The Godavari district. 1878.
NORTON, J. B. Letter to Robert Lowe, Esq. , on the conditions and requirements
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Observations on the land tenures of Southern India, by a Madras civilian. 1866.
SATTHIANADHAN, S. History of education in the Madras Presidency. 1894.
SLATER, G. Some South Indian villages. Madras, 1918.
SMOLLETT, J. B. Madras, its civil administration, being rough notes from personal
observation. 1858.
SRINIVASA RAGHAVA IYENGAR, S. Memorandum on the progress of the Madras
Presidency. 1893.
THORNTON, E. India, its state and prospects. 1835.
CHAPTERS IV and XIV
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IN BOMBAY, 1818-1918
UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS
The chief source consists of the papers in the Revenue Department of the Bombay
Government proceedings for which see Foster's Guide.
Published DOCUMENTS
Parliamentary Papers. Apart from the proceedings of the select committees of
1833 and 1853 (see p. 605, supra), the chief item consists of papers relating to the
Inam Commission, 1857 (session 2), vol. XXIX. See also the reports of the
Excise Committee, Indian Police Commission and Decentralisation Com-
mission (p. 608, supra).
Annual Administration Reports of the Bombay Presidency, 1858-9 to 1918-19.
Selections from the Bombay Records include among other items:
Memoirs and Treatises regarding Mahi-kanta.
Sind Revenue Rough Surveys.
Papers on Sarinjams.
Report on the Sawuntwari State.
Narrative of the Bombay Inam Commission.
Character of the Land Tenures in the Bombay Presidency.
Memoirs, etc.