About three-eighths of the country is still under native government, with British supervision.
India and its Problems, by W.S. Lilly, pp.284, 285 (Sands & Co.).
Asia and Europe, by Meredith Townsend, p.102 (Constable & Co.).
Cf. the careful summary of official evidence in Mr. Romesh Dutt’s Economic History of British India, chap.xv. (Kegan Paul).
Eastern India, by Montgomery Martin (London, 1838), vol.iii. Introd. (quoted Romesh Dutt, p.290).
Romesh Dutt, p.302.
Letter to the Board of Revenue, April 1838 (quoted Romesh Dutt, p.386).
The prosperity of districts under the Bengal settlement, as compared with other parts of British India, must however be imputed largely to the fact that this settlement enables Bengal to evade its full proportion of contribution to the revenue of India, and throws therefore a disproportionate burden upon other parts.