MAGNITUDE OF CRIME IN EARLY COLONIAL NADIA DISTRICT IN BENGAL: 1793-1856
Keywords:
Colonial, Nadia, Crime, BengalAbstract
Nadia was one of the largest districts in the colonial Bengal. In the formative years of colonial administration, interior parts of Bengal had witnessed widespread crime and criminal activities. It was perpetrated largely by the antisocial elements of the society. Nadia was a crime prone district as it was being described in the official narratives. Nadia was certainly an area of high crime zone for a few selective heinous crimes like dacoity, murder and burglary. This district always stood high in the rank of crime list of the Bengal districts. But this paper has shown that Nadia was not the most crime prone district in the period under discussion.
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Judicial Civil Proceedings (hereafter JCP), West Bengal State Archives(W.B.S.A), 12 August, 1817, No.20
Replies to the Interrogations by A. Seton, Collector of Nadia, 16 January 1802, Parliamentary Papers, Vol. IX, 1812-1813, p. 367-370
G.T. F.S.Barlow Speede (1847),The Criminal Statistics of Bengal, Calcutta, p. 111-112
Judicial Judicial Proceedings (hereafter JJP), (W.B.S.A), June, 1861, No. 415
In 1836 there were 601.37 inhabitants per square miles in Hooghly, in Burdwan 353.46 and in 1860 the density of population in per square miles stood in Hooghly 976, in Murshidabad 417, in Burdwan 385, in Jessore 312.
Parliamentary Papers, 1812-1813, Vol. IX, p. 56
Ibid
Calculated from the report of the Magistrate of Nadia, Bengal Judicial Criminal Proceedings( hereafter BJCP), 19 June 1807, No. 8
John Elliot, Magistrate of Nadia, BJCP, 24 November 1810, No.20 , JCP,12 August 1817, No. 20
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