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- 1757-1768. (Creation)
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12 vols., 1 envelope.
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Biographical history
Calcutta was founded as a trading settlement by Job Charnock, the Company’s agent in Hughli, in 1690. In 1697 its fort (Fort William) was built to defend it and Calcutta developed into the East India Company’s headquarters in Bengal. Its government was vested in a council or board and various courts of justice.
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Records of the Calcutta council and its committees, 1757-1768, and of the mayor' s court (one of its courts of justice), [c. 1765]-1766, dating from Clive' s first and second periods as governor of Bengal (1758-1760 and 1765-1767) although his first term is only very sparsely represented. The papers for 1768 refer to matters that occupied Clive before he resigned office in 1767.
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Arranged into two groups: records of the council and its committees, and records of the mayor’s court.
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Preferred citation: CS