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BENDAMURLANKA— BENGAL.
268
reluctance to meet these demands, and was also believed to be dis-
and Government.
to hold
correspondence with the enemies of the British was accordingly arrested by order of Warren Hastings but he escaped, collected troops, and headed a rebellion, which was crushed after a few petty skirmishes. Chait Singh was deprived of his estate, which was given to his nephew, Mahip Singh, grandson of Balwant Singh, subject to a tribute. The present Maharaja is a nephew of Mahi'p Singh’s son, and succeeded in 1835. Bendamurlanka. Town in Godavari District, Madras Presidency. affected,
He
•,
—
— See Bandamurlanka. Bengal. — A Presidency of
British India, comprising the whole river system of the Ganges and Brahmaputra, together with the upper waters of the Indus and its affluents or, roughly speaking, all India north of
‘
The
Vindhya Mountains.
the
Bengal
’
various significations which the term
has borne at different times will be explained in the following
(Bengal, Lower). The Presidency of Bengal has now a an administrative meaning, except in the Military Department, the Indian Army being still organised under three Com-
article
historical rather than
— for Bengal,
manders-in-Chief
Madras, and
Bombay respectively—with
the supreme direction vested in the Commander-in-Chief for Bengal.
The Bengal Presidency
includes the following five great Provinces,
each presided over by a Local Government of to the general control of the at
its
under
head.
A
full
Government of
its
own, but
account of each of these Provinces
their respective
The
names.
Central
all
subject
India, with the Viceroy will
be found
Provinces were formed
into a separate jurisdiction only in 1861, long after the term ‘Bengal
Presidency
’
had acquired
its
historical
meaning.
partly from the Bengal Presidency, partly from
They
are garrisoned
that of Madras,
and
are not included in the following table.
The Bengal Presidency
(1881).
(As returned in the Imperial Censtis Report, Name
1.
2.
4. 5.
Area. Sq. Miles.
of Province.
Lieutenant-Governorship of Bengal, Lieutenant- Governorship of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Lieutenant-Governorship of the Punjab, Chief-Commissionership of Assam, Commissionership of Ajmere, .
3.
.
.
.
.
.
.... .
Total,
^
^
Or Or
vol.
.
)
ii.
Population.
187,222!
69,536,861
111,236^
44,849,619
142,449 46,341 2,711
22,712, 120
489.959
142,440,748
(
4,881,426 460,722
193,198, including unsurvej'ed tracts and areas of great rivers. 111,229, according to the Provincial Census Report.
