Northern India in the Late Nineteenth Century: Quality of Life : Volume I, Part II (A-C): 1880s-1890s (Documents on Economic History of British Rule in India) /

Northern India in the Late Nineteenth Century: Quality of Life : Volume I, Part II (A-C): 1880s-1890s (Documents on Economic History of British Rule in India) /

This volume is part of the collaborative project of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) on documents pertaining to economic history and quality of life in Northern India in the late nineteenth century. The present volume (divided into...

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Other Authors: Bagchi, Amiya Kumar (Editor), Bandopadhyay, Arun (Editor)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.1: General Summary Report of the North-Western Province in the Year 1884-5; Facts Regarding Financial Result; Brief Information about Revenue Collection, Methods of Agriculture Improvement, Land Settlement Results, Court of Wards; Separate Revenues such as License Tax, Excise; Medical and Sanitary Conditions Involving Small-Pox, Vaccination; Expenses Regarding Education, Evaluation of Quality of Education among the Students; Financial Outcome from the Sales of Timber, Expenses Regarding Fire Protection of Forests; Facts Regarding Infanticide, Number of Convicts of Jails, Financial Condition of the Jail /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.2: General Summary Report of the North-Western Province in the Year 1887-8; Facts Regarding Financial Result; Brief Information about Revenue Collection, Methods of Agriculture Improvement, Land Settlement Results, Court of Wards; Separate Revenues such as Licence Tax, Excise; Medical and Sanitary Conditions Involving Small-Pox, Vaccination; Expenses Regarding Education, Evaluation of Quality of Education among the Students; Financial Outcome from the Sales of Timber, Expenses Regarding Fire Protection of Forests; Facts Regarding Infanticide, Number of Convicts of Jails, Financial Condition of the Jail /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.3: General Summary Report of the North-Western Province in the Year 1890-1; Facts Regarding Financial Result; Brief Information about Revenue Collection, Methods of Agriculture Improvement, Land Settlement Results, Court of Wards; Separate Revenues such as License Tax, Excise; Medical and Sanitary Conditions Involving Small-Pox, Vaccination; Expenses Regarding Education, Evaluation of Quality of Education among the Students; Financial Outcome from the Sales of Timber, Expenses Regarding Fire Protection of Forests; Facts Regarding Infanticide, Number of Convicts of Jails, Financial Condition of the Jail /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.4: General Summary Report of the North-Western Province in the Year 1893-4; Facts Regarding Financial Result; Brief Information about Revenue Collection, Methods of Agriculture Improvement, Land Settlement Results, Court of Wards; Separate Revenues Such as License Tax, Excise; Medical and Sanitary Conditions Involving Small-Pox, Vaccination; Expenses Regarding Education, Evaluation of Quality of Education among the Students; Financial Outcome from the Sales of Timber, Expenses Regarding Fire Protection of Forests; Facts Regarding Infanticide, Number of Convicts of Jails, Financial Condition of the Jail /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.5: General Summary Report of the North- Western Province in the Year 1896-7; Facts Regarding Financial Result; Brief Information about Revenue Collection, Methods of Agriculture Improvement, Land Settlement Results, Court of Wards; Separate Revenues Such as Licence Tax, Excise; Medical and Sanitary Conditions Involving Small-Pox, Vaccination; Expenses Regarding Education, Evaluation of Quality of Education among the Students; Financial Outcome from the Sales of Timber, Expenses Regarding Fire Protection of Forests; Facts Regarding Infanticide, Number of Convicts of Jails, Financial Condition of the Jail /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.6: General Summary Report of the North- Western Province in the Year 1899-1900; Scarcity Operation; Facts Regarding Financial Result; Brief Information about Revenue Collection, Methods of Agri- culture Improvement, Land Settlement Results, Court of Wards; Separate Revenues such as License Tax, Excise; Medical and Sanitary Conditions Involving Small-Pox, Vaccination; Expenses Regarding Education, Evaluation of Quality of Education among the Students; Financial Outcome from the Sales of Timber, Expenses Regarding Fire Protection of Forests; Facts Regarding Infanticide, Number of Convicts of Jails, Financial Condition of the Jail /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.7: Sketch of the Meteorology in the North- Western Provinces and Oudh in the Year 1880-1; Detailed Information Regarding the Temperature, Wind, Rainfall, Humidity /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.8: Sketch of the Meteorology in the North- Western Provinces and Oudh in the Year 1883-4; Detailed Information Regarding the Temperature, Wind, Rainfall, Humidity /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.9: Sketch of the Meteorology in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh in the Year 1885-6; Detailed Information Regarding the Temperature, Wind, Rainfall, Humidity /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.10: Sketch of the Meteorology in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh in the Year 1890; Detailed Information Regarding the Temperature, Wind, Rainfall, Humidity /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.11: Sketch of the Meteorology in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh in the Year 1894-5; Detailed Information Regard- ing the Temperature, Wind, Rainfall, Humidity /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.12: Sketch of the Meteorology in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh in the Year 1895-6; Detailed Information Regard- ing the Temperature, Wind, Rainfall, Humidity /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.13: Sketch of the Meteorology in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh in the Year 1896-7; Detailed Information Regarding the Temperature, Wind, Rainfall, Humidity /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.14: Sketch of the Meteorology in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh in the Year 1899-1900; Detailed Information Re- garding the Temperature, Wind, Rainfall, Humidity /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.15: Report of the Court of Wards of the Year 1883-4; Rental Demands, Collections and Balances for the Particular Year; Expenditure of Several Estates; Talukdar's Relief Act /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Documents 1.16: Report of the Court of Wards of the Year 1896-7; Rental Demands, Collections and Balances for the Particular Year; Ex- penditure of Several Estates; Talukdar's Relief Act /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Documents 1.17: Report of the Court of Wards of the Year 1898-9; Rental Demands, Collections and Balances for the Particular Year; Ex- penditure of Several Estates; Talukdar's Relief Act /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.18: Infanticide in North-Western Province and Oudh in the Year 1880-1; Compari- son between N.W.P.
  • and England of In- fanticide of Boys and Girls; Percentage of Girls More than Boys in Some Cases; Male and Female Percentage over Total Births /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.19: Infanticide in North-Western Province and Oudh in the Year 1882-3; Deaths on Infants on Both Sexes; Juvenile Mortality; Deaths of Boys on Boy Population and Deaths of Girls on Girl Population /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.20: Infanticide in North-Western Province and Oudh in the Year 1883-4; Provincial Birth-rate of Females Increases but the Proportional Birth-rates is Still Behind the Boys; Decrease in Infant Death Rates not Observed between the Child of 1 and 12 Years of Age /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.21: Infanticide in North-Western Province and Oudh in the Year 1886-7; Deaths of Boys on Boy Population and Deaths of Girls on Girl Population; Postmortems were Done to Reveal the Cause Behind the Deaths of Infants /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.22: Infanticide in North-Western Province and Oudh in the Year 1897-8; Informa- tion Regarding Population of Boys and Girls on Birth, Death Rates, Arrivals and Removals of Boys and Girls, Transferring of Population Over Six /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.23: Infanticide in North-Western Province and Oudh in the Year 1898-9; Dola Sys- tem of Marriage was Introduced in Agra and Some Other Districts where Daugh- ters Became Source of Profit Instead of Expense in their Marriage /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 1.24: Infanticide in North-Western Province and Oudh in the Year 1899-1900; Infor- mation about the Percentage of Girls in Some Districts and also about the Villages who were Considered as Guilty /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 2.1: Settlement Report of Certain Portion of Jalaun District (1888): Final Report of the Revision of the Settlement of Jalaun Tract; Comprehensive Description of District, Its Limits, Physical Features and Economic Condition; Comparison between Old and New Settlement; Land and Rent of Tenants, Irrigation, Crops, Prices; Memorandum by Mr. W.P. Vonder Horst, on the Betwa Canal and Remarks of C. J. Connell on the Revision of Settlement of the Jalaun Tract /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 2.2: Final Report of the Settlement of the Sultanpur District in Oudh in 1898; Different Nature of Tenures; Proprietary Castes; Aggregate of Sub-Proprietary Tenures; Different Methods of Irrigation; Comparison of the Former and Present Condition of the District; Rent-Rates Examined according to Proprietary Tenures; High Caste and Low Caste Tenant Rent-Rates Examined; Standard Rent-Rate Corrected Rental Summarized; Allowance for Improvement; Expiring and Revised Demands Compared /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 2.3: N.W.P. Revenue 1884-5 Department; Two Statements - The First Comparing the Areas held Under Occupancy Right at Settlement, and in all the Years for which those Areas have been Recorded under the New System, for those Districts in which Figures for all Years were Available in this Office; the Second Showing them for all Districts in which the Figures for the Whole Period of Four Years from 1286 to 1289 Fasli, but Not for Settlement Year; in the Rohilkhand Division there has been a Very Great Decrease in the Occupancy Area Since Settlement /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 3.1: Forest Depart Budget for the Year 1882-3 in NWP and Oudh School Circle; Increase and Decrease in Revenues Collected from Forest Resource; Reduction in Expenditure and Estimation of Budget for Different Purposes such as Grazing, Fodder Grains Fines and Forfeitures, Refund; Information about the Variations of the Quantity of Sales of Timber and also about the Quantity of Railway Sleepers Sold /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 3.2: Working Plan of the Lansdowne Reserved Forests in NWP and Oudh in the Year 1894; this Forest Report Shed Important Light on the Ecological and Environmental Aspects of the Area; System of Manage- ment; Utilization of the Produce; Work- ing Scheme and Method of Treatment of the Forest Areas /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 3.3: Report on the Progress and Condition of the Government Botanical Gardens at Saharanpur and Mussoorie in the Year 1897; Information about the Growth of Different Medicinal Specie, Fruit Culture; Supply of Drugs to the Medical Department; Vegetable and Farm Culture; Experiments Connected with the Evaporation of Fruit; Indication of Scientific Forestry /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 3.4: Report on the Progress and Condition of the Government Botanical Gardens at Saharanpur and Aringadh in the Year 1900; Information about the Growth of Different Medicinal Species, Fruit Culture; Supply of Drugs to the Medical Department; Arboriculture; Exotic Plantation; Vegetable and Farm Culture; Collection of Specimens for the Imperial Institute London; Indication of Scientific Forestry /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 4.1: Income Tax in N.-W.P. and Oudh 1886-7; License Tax Act; Income Tax Act; Statement of Expenditure Incurred in the Assessment and Collection of the Tax under Act II of 1886, in the Year 1886-7; Statement Showing the Collections of the Tax under Act II of 1886 from Interest on Securities in the Year 1866-7 /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 4.2: Income-Tax in N.W.P. and Oudh (1886-7) - Gross Tax Receipts, Collection and Assessment /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 4.3: Income-tax in N.-W.P. and Oudh (1887-8) - Gross Tax Receipts, Collection and Assessment /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 4.4: Income Tax in N.-W.P. and Oudh (1888-9) - Gross Tax Receipts, Collection and Assessment /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 4.5: Income-tax in N.-W.P. and Oudh (1889-90) - Gross and Net Receipts and Assessment /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 4.6: Income-tax in N.-W.P. and Oudh (1890-91) - Gross Receipts, Collection and Assessment /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 4.7: Income-tax in N.-W.P. and Oudh (1892-3) - Tax Receipts, Collection, Demand and Assessment /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 4.8: Income-tax in N.-W.P. and Oudh (1895-6) - Tax Receipts and Assessment /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 4.9: Income-tax in N.-W.P. and Oudh (1899-1900) - Tax Receipts and Assessment /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 5.1: Annual Report on Vaccination in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh 1896-7; Expenditure on Vaccination; Average Cost of Each Successful Case of Vaccination; Number of Deaths from Small-pox in Each District of the Provinces for a Series of 10 Years; General Result of Inspection /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 5.2: Working of the Lock Hospitals of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh in 1882; Lock Hospitals were Specialist Institutions Created for the Treatment of Venereal Disease. This Report Provides the Information about the Link between the Military and Prostitution.
  • We also Find Information Regarding the Expenditure of the Lock Hospitals of Different Provinces /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 5.3: Annual Report of the Working of the Lock Hospitals of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh in 1886; Annual Return of Women Registered, and Disease Treated, in the Lock Hospitals of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, for the Year 1886; Statement of Average Expenditure Incurred in the Lock Hospitals of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, during the Year 1886; Statement Showing the Prevalence of Venereal Disease among the Soldiers of the European Garrison during 1886, the Prevalence in the Previous Five Years, and for the Five Years before the Opening of the Lock Hospitals /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 5.4: Working of the Lock Hospitals of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh in 1889; Annual Return of Women Registered, and Disease Treated, in the Lock Hospitals of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, for the Year 1889; Statement of Average Expenditure Incurred in the Lock Hospitals of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, During the Year 1889; Statement Showing the Prevalence of Venereal Disease among the Soldiers of the European Garrison during 1889, the Prevalence in the Previous Five Years, and for the Five Years before the Opening of the Lock Hospitals /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 5.5: Report and Returns of the Lunatic Asylum in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh; Information Regarding Different Lunatic Asylums about Male and Female Percentage of Lunatics; Accommodation of the Asylums; Cases due to Intake of Drugs; Expenditure of the Asylums; of the Occupation of the Lunatics; Number of Lunatics Admitted, Transferred and Died /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 5.6: Report and Returns of the Lunatic Asylum in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh; Information Regarding Different Lunatic Asylums about Male and Female Percentage of Lunatics; Accommodation of the Asylums; Cases due to Intake of Drugs; Expenditure of the Asylums; of the Occupation of the Lunatics; Number of Lunatics Admitted, Transferred and Died /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 5.7: Report and Returns of the Lunatic Asylum in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh; Information Regarding Different Lunatic Asylums about Male and Female Percentage of Lunatics; Accommodation of the Asylums; Occupation of the Lunatics; Number of Lunatics Admitted, Transferred and Died /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 6.1: Report of the Indian Education Com- mission, Appointed by the Resolution of India, 1882; Progress of Primary Education; Cost of Education in Primary Schools; Average Annual Cost of Educating Each Pupil in Primary Schools; Efforts Taken for the Education; Results of the Measures Taken for Improvement of Education; Expenditure of Female Education in British India /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay
  • Document 6.2: Technical Education in NWP and Oudh (1891) - Proceeding of the Committee; Scope of the Enquiry; Committee's Recommendations Regarding Thomason College, Roorkee and a Special Note on that Thomason Engineering College /
  • Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay.