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BENDAMURLANKA— BENGAL.

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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.