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The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry 1853 - 1953 A Centenary Survey

1953

In his presidential address he reminded the Congress that it was Disraeli as Leader of the Tory opposition in the House of Commons who critic pecl Lord Palmerston's original India Bill of 1858 on the grounds that it made no provision for the expression of the views! of the inhabitants of the country and who thus became in a sense the spiritual father of the Congress. [...] German philosopher wrote thus about the British pioneers of world trade the forebears and contemporaries of the men who inaugurated the BENGAL and other CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE in this country : The material existence of the English is based on commerce and industry and the English have undertaken the weight and responsibility of being the missionaries of civilisation to the world; for their comme [...] Of major significance in the present story this petition of which a facsimile is reproduced as the centre-piece to this book is the only original document relating to the genesis of the chamber which has survived the passing of the years and the destructive effects of the climate of Bengal. [...] For the rest of its existence the Company was henceforth an administrative agency acting for Parliament and the Crown and this was the position until its abolition in 1858."( 20 ) long covering letter accompanies a petition to the GovernoGeneral in Council being the humble memorial of the undersigned British subjects within the limits of the Presidency of Fort William" on the subject of the d [...] Briefly the constitutional results of the Mutiny were the abolition of the ramshackle and dependent Moghul Court at Delhi the disappearance of the last vestige of sovereignty other than British within British India and the termination of the remaining powers and privileges of the East India Company.
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Pages
237
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145653
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-i Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Frontmatter
i-v Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter One Background to the Beginning
1-11 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Two History in the Making
12-18 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Three First Quinquennium
19-30 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Four The Modern Period Begins
31-53 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Five Industries Associations Arbitrations
54-63 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Six Industries Associations Arbitrations (Continued)
64-81 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Seven Controversies & Jubilee
82-96 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Eight The Coming of New Techniques
97-111 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Nine War and Politics
112-126 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Ten Between the Wars
127-138 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Eleven The Depression & After
139-149 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Twelve On a War Footing
150-162 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Thirteen Approaching the Centenary
163-174 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Chapter Fourteen Postscript
175-178 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Appendices
179-203 Geoffrey W. Tyson view
Index
i-viii Geoffrey W. Tyson view

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