Dossier GCH/1 - Historical and Comparative Analysis of the Finances of Bengal

4 volumes

Four volumes by Hamilton and Haughton which are concerned with the Finances of Bengal and were compiled for the East India Company. Each consists of handwritten manuscripts bound into leather volumes which seem to have been produced consecutively. All were presented to the Royal Asiatic Society by Sir Graves Haughton on 1 April 1837. The four volumes are:

• "Historical and Comparative Analysis of the Finances of Bengal chronologically arranged in different periods, from the Moghul Conquest to the Present time, extracted from a political survey of the British Dominions and tributary dependencies in India", beginning with an introduction and covering the first two periods
• Same title as above, but covering the third period. Preceding this manuscript in the same volume is an accompanying letter to the Right Honorable Charles Earl Cornwallis in December 1786, and another letter to Edward Hay asking him to deliver the manuscripts to the EIC board, signed J. G., dated 8 December 1786
• "Historical & Comparative view of the Revenues of Bengal... A.D.1765-1784", which also includes a letter to the Right Honorable Charles Earl Cornwallis to accompany the report, dated 28 February 1788
• "Supplement to the Historical and Comparative Analysis of the finances of Bengal...containing a similar disquisition on the revenue of the dependent Dominions of Soubah Behar, Chuckleh Midnapore in Orissa and the Zamindary of Benares in the Soubah of Allahabad, Calcutta, June 30th 1787".

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