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the Ryotwary system as contrasted with the general in-
crease of the revenue of Bengal under the Zumeendary
permanent settlement; the latter diffusing prosperity into
the other branches of revenue, whereas the former (or
Ryotwary system), without effecting any material increase,
in that particular branch, has, by its impoverishing
influence, tended to dry up the other sources of Revenue :
a fact which must stand valid and incontrovertible as a
proof of the superiority of the latter, until a contrary fact
of greater or at least equal weight can be adduced.
Statement ist.—Bengal, Behar and Orissa.
By a comparative view of the Revenues of Bengal,
Behar and Orissa, from the period of the Perpetual
Settlement, it appears that, in the thirty-five years, from
1792-3 to 1827-28, there was a total increase on the whole
amount of the Revenue of above 100 per cent. (ioi'7i),
and that this increase has been steady and progressive-
up to the present time ; in the first seventeen years (from
1792-3 to 1839-10) it was about 4z\ per cent.; in the
next eighteen years (from 1809-10 to 1827-28) 43^ per
cent., and in the last ten years of that period (from
1817-18 to 1827-28) it was nearly 30 per cent.
These result are extracted from The Second Report
of the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India
Company in 1810, p. 80; The Second Report of 1830,
p. 98. In 1815-16, the revenue of Cuttack was in-
corporated with that of Bengal, but in 1822 the revenue
of this Province did not exceed 185,000/.
Statement 2nd.—Madras.
By a comparative view of the revenue of the old
British territory in Madras, it appears that during the
IOi:
the Ryotwary system as contrasted with the general in-
crease of the revenue of Bengal under the Zumeendary
permanent settlement; the latter diffusing prosperity into
the other branches of revenue, whereas the former (or
Ryotwary system), without effecting any material increase,
in that particular branch, has, by its impoverishing
influence, tended to dry up the other sources of Revenue :
a fact which must stand valid and incontrovertible as a
proof of the superiority of the latter, until a contrary fact
of greater or at least equal weight can be adduced.
Statement ist.—Bengal, Behar and Orissa.
By a comparative view of the Revenues of Bengal,
Behar and Orissa, from the period of the Perpetual
Settlement, it appears that, in the thirty-five years, from
1792-3 to 1827-28, there was a total increase on the whole
amount of the Revenue of above 100 per cent. (ioi'7i),
and that this increase has been steady and progressive-
up to the present time ; in the first seventeen years (from
1792-3 to 1839-10) it was about 4z\ per cent.; in the
next eighteen years (from 1809-10 to 1827-28) 43^ per
cent., and in the last ten years of that period (from
1817-18 to 1827-28) it was nearly 30 per cent.
These result are extracted from The Second Report
of the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India
Company in 1810, p. 80; The Second Report of 1830,
p. 98. In 1815-16, the revenue of Cuttack was in-
corporated with that of Bengal, but in 1822 the revenue
of this Province did not exceed 185,000/.
Statement 2nd.—Madras.
By a comparative view of the revenue of the old
British territory in Madras, it appears that during the