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WARREN HASTINGS I N BENGAL 68 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF BRITISH INDIA families of Bengal; he never withdrew his support from the auction purchasers and farmers, who grew up under his harsh and unsympathetic system. Large slices of the old Rajshahi estates were carved out to create a flourishing estate for Kanta Babu, the Banyan of Warren Hastings. The evils of an oppressive and ever-changing system of land administration were aggravated by the fact that virtually the whole of the revenues of the province were drained out of the country, and did not return in any shape to the people, to fructify their trades, industries, and agriculture.
I t was naturally to be expected that the diminution of the revenue should have kept an equal pace with the other consequences of so great a calamity. " ' In the language of modern Indian administration this violently keeping up the land revenue would be described as the Recuperative Power of India ! Extracts from India Office Records, quoted in Hunter's Ann& Rural Bengal, 1868, p. 381. 01 WARREN HASTINGS I N BENGAL CHAPTER IV WARREN HASTINGS I N BENGAL (1772-1785) THE British Parliament passed the Regulating Act in 1773.
Men without fortune or character became bidders at the sale ; and while some of the former farmers, unwilling to relinquish their habitations, exceeded perhaps the real value in their offers, those who had nothing to lose advanced yet further, wishing at all events to obtain an immediate possession. " l We shall see farther on that this new and oppressive system was subsequently extended all over Bengal by Warren Hastings, and caused the greatest discontent, disorder, and suffering. Throughout the administration of Verelst and Cartier the land revenue was exacted with the utmost rigour in order to meet the East India Company's demands.