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Why could Henry Verelst and his troops not reach Manipur?​

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Answered by c3vikatskmlo
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On the 26th of Jan uary, 1767, Lord C live departed from Fort

W illiam , leavin g his friend H arry Verelst to succeed him in the P re s i-

dency and G overnorship of Bengal.

•AccDrding to the accepted version of the history of the English in

B en gal, the C om pany rem ained content with the gift of the D iw ani in

17 6 5 , and it w as not until 17 7 2 that any attem pt w as made to set up a

ra m p lle n t English adm inistration in B en gal. T o quote Lord M acaulay

again " the only branch of politics about which the E n glish functionaries

busied them selves {i.e. up to 1772) was negotiation with the native

princes. T h e police, the adm inistration of justice, the details of the

collection of the revenue, were alm ost entirely neglected.” From the

previous chapters of the present work it will have been seen that this

view ignores altogether the history of the Ceded D istricts of Bengal,

where the C om pany, from the very first moment of their possession, had

been exceed ingly active in the matter of the details of the revenues. It

is not possible to defend M acaulay’s statem ent by pleading that the

Ceded D istricts w ere com paratively of sm all account. A gain if stress

be laid on the fact that even in the Ceded D istricts the authority of the

Nazim in crim inal ju stice was m aintained, it must be replied that in this

respect M acaulay’s choice of the year 1772 is indefensible, for the Nazim

retained that last vestige of sovereign pow er until the time of Lord

Cornw allis. A fter g iv in g weight to the consideration of the history of

the Ceded D istricts

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