ABSTRACT
Most of the grants having been leased out in 1830 and 1831, the clearance Condition fell due in 1836 and 1837. Mr. Dampier, as mentioned in paragraph 96, gave an amalnama in 1834 for land west of the river Bhola and south of Perikhali, estimated at 7,000 bighas. Clearings were found in it, and the amalnama was cancelled in 1838 and the land divided between the grantee and the unauthorised reclaimer. The only important produce was rice; some of the grantees had tried sugarcane and coconut, but had failed; and the manufacture of salt was confined to the limits prescribed by Government. The Court of Directors reviewed the subject of the Sundarban grants at the beginning of 1842. After Mr. Dampier’s demarcation of the Sundarban boundary in the 24-Parganas; disputes between the zamindars and border grantees ceased, and matters went on peacefully for a few years until the grantees’ clearings reached the zamindari lands.
