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CONTENTS OF VOL. VIII. NINTH REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA. June 25, 1783. OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF THE COMPANY S AF FAIRS IN INDIA 3 CONNECTION OF GREAT BRITAIN WITH INDIA . 41 EFFECT OF THE REVENUE INVESTMENT ON THE COM PANY ......... 56 INTERNAL TRADE OF BENGAL .... 75 SILK......... 83 RAW SILK 88 PAQ CLOTHS, OR PIECE-GOODS ..... 99 OPIUM 116 SALT 142 SALTPETRE 170 BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN INDIA . . . .173 ELEVENTH REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA. WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE APPENDIX. November 18, 1783 . 217 ARTICLES OF CHARGE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS AGAINST WARREN HASTINGS, ESQUIRE, LATE GOVERNOR- GENERAL OFBENGAL PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COM MONS IN APRIL AND MAT, 1786. ARTICLES I. - VI. I. ROHILLA WAR ....... 307 II. SHAH ALLUM .... 319 CONTENTS. III. BENARES. PART I. RIGHTS AND TITLES OF THE RAJAH or BENARES PART II. DESIGNS OF MR. HASTINGS TO RUIN THE RAJAH OF BENARES PAQI 327 339 PART III. EXPULSION OF THE RAJAH OF BENARES 354 PART IV. SECOND REVOLUTION IN BENARES . 380 PART V. THIRD REVOLUTION IN BENAHES . 386 IV. PRINCESSES OF OUDE...... 397 V. REVOLUTIONS IN FURRUCKABAD . . . 467 VL DESTRUCTION OF THE RAJAH OF SAHLONE . . 484 NINTH REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA. VOL. VIII. 1 JUNE 25, 1783. NINTH REPORT From the SELECT COMMITTEE the House of of Commons appointed to take into consideration the state of the ad ministration ofjustice in the provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Orissa, and to report the same, as it shall appear to them, to the House, with their observations thereupon and who were instructed to consider how the Britishpos sessions in the East Indies may be held and governed with the greatest security and advantage to this country, and by what means the happiness of the native inhab itants may be best promoted. I. OBSERVATIONS ON THE STATE OF THE COMPANY S AFFAIRS IN INDIA. IN order to enable the House to adopt the most proper means for regulating the British govern ment in India, and for promoting the happiness of the natives who live under its authority or influence, your Committee hold it expedient to collect into dis tinct points of view the circumstances by which that government appears to them to be most essentially disordered, and to explain fully the principles of pol icy and the course of conduct by which the natives of all ranks and orders have been reduced to their present state of depression and misery. Your Committee have endeavored to perform this task in plain and popular language, knowing that nothing has alienated the House from inquiries absolutely necessary for the performance of one of the most essential of all its duties so much as the techni cal language of the Company s records, as the Indian names of persons, of offices, of the tenure and qualities of estates, and of all the varied branches of their intri cate revenue. This language is, indeed, of necessary use in the executive departments of the Company s affairs but it is not necessary to Parliament. A lan guage so foreign from all the ideas and habits of the far greater part of the members of this House has a tendency to disgust them with all sorts of inqui ry concerning this subject. They are fatigued into such a despair of ever obtaining a competent knowl edge of the transactions in India, that they are easi ly persuadedto remand them back to that obscurity, mystery, and intrigue out of which they have been forced upon public notice by the calamities arising from their extreme mismanagement...
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