British imperium and forested zones of anomaly in Bengal, 1767-1833

Indian Economic & Social History Review

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 243-282

  Sivaramakrishnan, K ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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264. BC, 58891, extract BCJC 2 December 1833, progs 55, 1/d 24 July 1833, Magistrate Midnapore to Joint Commissioner, pp. 189-90.
265. BC, 58891, extract BCJC 2 December 1833, progs 57, 1/d 10 August 1833, Magistrate Jungle Mahals to Joint Commissioner, p. 193.
266. BC, 58891, extract BCJC 2 December 1833, progs 61, orders dated 31 March 1834.
267. OIOC, F/4/1502, BC 58894, Extract BCJC 12 April 1831, progs 35, 1/d March 1831, Magistrate Ramgarh to Commissioner, Patna Division, pp. 7-15.
268. SRBG 16, pp. 61-74.
269. Anon, Reports on the Political State of the South West Frontier Agency, Selections from the Record of the Bengal Government, no. XI, Calcutta: F. Carbery, 1853, p. 13.
270. SRBG 16, p. 78.
271. OIOC, E/4/745, BD, Jud progs 4 of 16 September 1835, draft 507/1835, pp. 361-83.