ABSTRACT
The Select Committee appointed to enquire into the present State of the Affairs of the East India Company, and to report the same, as it shall appear to them, with their Observations thereupon, to the House. The Dewanny authority over the provinces of Bengal, Bahar and Orissa, was conferred in perpetuity on the East India Comany, by a firmaun or royal grant in August 1765. But though the civil and military power of the country, and the resources for maintaining it, were assumed on the part of the East India Company, either by the local government, or the directors, to vest the immediate management of the revenue, or the administration of justice, in the European servants. The Committee proceed to state the measures, which, in pursuance of the requisitions of Parliament to inquire into the condition of the landholders and to establish permanent rules for the internal government of the provinces.
