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Bengal

Historical region of eastern South Asia; its revenue was collected by the East India Company from 1765.

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  1. 1757 Mir Jafar head of Bengal
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  1. Lord Clive (essay, Edinburgh Review, January 1840), Thomas Babington Macaulay (text via Frances Pritchett, Columbia University), 1840. Scholarship & press
    saluted him as Nabob of the three great provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa
  2. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, vol. 9: Articles of Charge against Warren Hastings (1786) and the opening speech of 15-16 February 1788, Project Gutenberg. Primary record
    ARTICLES OF CHARGE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS AGAINST WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE, LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF BENGAL: PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN APRIL AND MAY, 1786
    the opium produced in Bengal and Bahar is a considerable and lucrative article in the export trade of those provinces; that the whole produce has been for many years monopolized either by individuals or by the government
    in consideration of the hardship imposed on the native owners and cultivators of the lands, who were deprived of their natural right of dealing with many competitors, and compelled to sell the produce of their labor to a single monopolist
  3. Warren Hastings (essay, Edinburgh Review, October 1841), Thomas Babington Macaulay (text via Frances Pritchett, Columbia University), 1841. Scholarship & press
    This law, known by the name of the Regulating Act, provided that the presidency of Bengal should exercise a control over the other possessions of the Company; that the chief of that presidency should be styled Governor-General
  4. The Annals of Rural Bengal, vol. 1 (W. W. Hunter), with the Bengal government's letter of 3 November 1772 in Appendix A, Smith, Elder & Co. (scan on the Internet Archive), 1868. Scholarship & press
    the loss of at least one-third of the Inhabitants of the Province, and the consequent decrease of the Cultivation, the nett collections of the year 1771 exceeded even those of 1768
    The effects of the dreadful Famine which visited these
  5. Mughal Decline to Early British Rule, in A Population History of India (Tim Dyson), chapter abstract, Oxford University Press, 2018. Scholarship & press
    the number of deaths associated with the 1769–70 famine in Bengal has almost certainly been overstated
  6. History of India, vol. 8, ch. 8: The Situation in Bengal (A. C. Lyall), History of India, ed. A. V. W. Jackson (text via ibiblio), 1907. Scholarship & press
    direct administration of the revenue of the three provinces of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa
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