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Bengal Ms. Records is a monumental scholarly work presenting a curated selection of 14,136 letters from the Board of Revenue archives in Calcutta covering the critical period of 1782-1807. This four-volume hardcover set offers invaluable primary source material for understanding Bengal’s administrative, economic, and social history during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Compiled by the renowned historian Sir William Wilson Hunter, this collection includes a comprehensive historical dissertation providing context and analysis of the records. The detailed analytical index facilitates navigation through thousands of documents, making it an essential reference for scholars, historians, and researchers studying colonial India, British East India Company operations, and Bengal’s transformation during this pivotal period.
The work serves as a crucial bridge between raw archival material and scholarly interpretation, offering both primary documentation and expert historical analysis in a single authoritative source.
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