FROM

THE RECORDS

OF THE

GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL.

No. XXXIII.-PART III.

PAPERS

RELATING TO

INDIGO CULTIVATION IN BENGAL.

Published by Authority.

Calcutta:

BENGAL SECRETARIAT OFFICE.

1860.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART III.

Subject.

No. XXVII.-Explanation of the Deputy Magistrate of Kalarooah in regard

to the publication of the Perwannah issued by him in August

1859 to the Police of his Sub-Division, to which the Indigo ex-

citement, in a part of the Nuddea District, had been by some

attributed, and the orders thereon,

No. XXVIII.-Correspondence relative to the case of a Mooktiar sentenced

by Mr. Deputy Magistrate G. C. D. Betts to imprisonment on a

charge of instigating Ryots not to sow Indigo. Mr. Betts' ex-

planation and the orders thereon,.....

No. XXIX.-Advocate General's opinions on several points relative to the

working of the Indigo Act, No. XI. of 1860, and the correspondence

connected therewith,.....

No. XXX. Correspondence relative to cases in which the Lieutenant-Gover-

nor had to correct the hasty and improper decisions of some of

the Magisterial Officers in the Nuddea and Pubna Districts,

in the trial of cases under Act XI. of 1860,..................

No. XXXI.-Correspondence relative to certain cases of breach of Indigo con-

tracts tried by Mr. Herschell, Officiating Magistrate of Nuddea,

in which the prosecution completely broke down, and the Kaboo-

lyuts brought forward to support the charges were found to be

forged,

Page.

605 to 614

615 to 627

628 to 647

648 to 702

703 to 716

ii

No. XXXII.-Case of abduction of a Ryot named Seetul Turufdar by the

servants of the Hanskhally Indigo Factory,...........

Page.

717 to 730

No. XXXIII.-Mr. Yule's remarks on the trial of the Rioters who attacked

Mr. Lyon's Factory at Bunnyagaon. Mr. Browne Wood's re-

ports on the disturbances connected with the cultivation of

Indigo in the Aurrungabad Sub-Division, and the orders thereon, 731 to 780

No. XXXIV.-Petition from certain Inhabitants of Nuddea and Jessore com-

plaining of the oppressions of the Indigo Planters, and the

orders thereon,

No. XXXV.-Petition from certain Inhabitants of Thannah Hanskhally, in

Nuddea, complaining that the local Authorities refused their

application for compensation for the losses sustained by them at

the hands of Mr. White, of the Bansbariah Indigo Factory, and

the orders thereon,.

No. XXXVI.-Petition from Ryots of Nuddea, Jessore, and Pubna, complain-

ing of the high rates at which damages for alleged breaches of

Indigo contracts have been awarded, and praying for the appoint.

ment of a Judicial Officer to review the erroneous proceedings of

the Magistrate,

781 to 795

796 to 798

799 to 802

No. XXXVII.-Petition from Okhil Chunder Biswas, of Nuddea, praying for

a review of the proceedings of the Magistrate of that District in

the case of outrage committed on him by Mr. White, of Bansbariah 803 & 804

No. XXXVIII.-Petition from certain Ryots of Jadubpore and other Villages

of Thannah Bhagda, in Nuddea, complaining of the oppressions

practised on them by Messrs. Larmour and Cockshott, of the

Katgurrah Indigo Factory,........

No. XXXIX.-Petition from certain Ryots of Jungul, in Pubna, complain-

ing of the oppressions practised on them by Mr. Durand, of the

Nischintapore Indigo Factory,

............

No. XL.-Petition from certain Prisoners in the Pubna Jail, complaining of

their having been unjustly punished on a false charge of having

intimidated Ryots not to sow Indigo...

No. XLI.-Petition from certain Inhabitants of Thannah Shumshergunge,

in the Aurungabad Sub-Division, complaining of the oppressions

practised upon them by Mr. Lyon, Indigo Planter of the Bunnya-

gaon Factory

805 to 815

816 to 821

822 to 825

826 to 828

..........

No. XLII. Further proceedings connected with the Indigo question in the

Nuddea Division.........

829 to 928

No. XLIII. Further proceedings connected with the Indigo question in the

Rajshahye Division.......................

929 to 1020

No. XLIV.-Destruction of the Indigo Plant in a part of the Puckadanga

Concern, in the Furreedpore District

1021 & 1022

iii

No. XLV.-Objection taken by the Central Committee of the Benga Indigo

Planters' Association to an expression of opinion in an official

letter to Government by the Commissioner of Nuddea, and the

reply thereto,

No. XLVI.-Appointment of the Indigo Commission

Page.

.... 1023 &. 1024

No. XLVII.-Correspondence with the Indigo Planters' Association relative

to the prosecution of witnesses who might give false evidence

before the Indigo Commission

No. XLVIII.-Correspondence with Mr. F. Beaufort, c. s., relative to a Per-

wannah stated to have been issued by him, when Magistrate of

Jessore, to one Luttafut Hossein, Zemindar,......

No. XLIX.-Statement made by Mr. G. Mears, in his deposition before the

Indigo Commission, that certain instructions issued by the Com-

missioner of Nuddea affected the judicial independence of the

Principal Sudder Ameens deputed to try Indigo cases in that Dis-

trict, and Mr. Lushington's reply thereto, ....

1025 to 1033

1034

1035 to 1039

..... 1040 & 1041

No. L.-Complaint of the Indigo Planters' Association against Mr. Herschell,

Officiating Magistrate of Nuddea, and the reply thereto,................................. 1042 to 1078

No. LI.-Complaints made in the Indian Field and Hindos Patriot News-

papers against the proceedings of Mr. Molony, Magistrate, and

Mr. Skinner, Joint Magistrate of Jessore, and the result of the en-

quiry thereon,.......

No. LII. Memorial presented by the Bengal Indigo Planters Association to

the Government of India, complaining against certain proceed-

ings of the Lieutenant-Governor, and the Minute recorded by the

Lieutenant-Governor thereon,........

1079 to 1170

... 1171 to 1211