1st Edition
F.D. Ascoli Early Revenue History of Bengal and The Fifth Report, 1812
Edited By Ananda Bhattacharyya
Copyright 2019
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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Early Revenue History of Bengal and the Fifth Report, 1812 was the outcome of a series of four lectures delivered at the Dacca College by the distinguished Bengali civil servant, F.D. Ascoli. It embodies the text of the Fifth Report on the affairs of the East India Company by the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed with a view to form the charter of 1813, and also careful and... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Preface to the First Edition 3. Introduction by F.D. Ascoli I. Bengal as a Province of the Mughal Empire and the Origin of the British Dominion II. The Mughal Revenue Administration III. British Revenue Administration up to 1786 IV. Revenue Administration from 1786-1790 V. The Grant-Shore Controversy: Grant’s Case VI. The Grant-Shore Controversy: Shore’s Case VII. The Shore-Cornwallis Controversy VIII. The Effects of the Permanent Settlement IX. Copy of the Fifth Report from the Select Committee
Biography
F.D. Ascoli was born in August 1888 and got his education from Exeter College, Oxford. He was the Managing Director, Dunlop Plantations Ltd.; Director, Dunlop Malayan Estates Ltd. and Semtex Ltd. He entered Indian Civil Service in 1907 and held the post of Secretary, Board of Revenue, Bengal, 1917-20. He was also the settlement officer of Dacca. He retired from Indian Civil Service in 1926.
Ananda Bhattacharyya is Assistant Director of the West Bengal State Archives.
