BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Original Source
A. Revenue Records in the Council Record room,Cooch Behar for the year
1870-72, 1880-1885, 1886-1891 and 1912-1920.
National Archives, New Delhi
Foreign Consultations.
Home Consultations.
West Bengal Archives, Calcutta, Proceedings of the Government of
Bengal, General Department (Relevant Volumes only).
Proceedings of the Government of Bengal, Revenue Department,
(Relevant Volumes only).
B. Notes
Notes by the Judicial Member of the Cooch Behar State Council on the
Dewan's letter No. 932, dated 31st October, 1984.
Note by the Dewan dated 15th December, 1884 on the remarks
recorded by the Judicial Memb~r in connection wfth the points referred
to in the Dewan's letter No. 932 of the 31st October, 1884.
Note on the Resettlement of Land Revenue· in Cooch Behar, by H. G.
Twynam, Cooch Behar, 1923.
Note of s~ C. Ghosal to the Council office on 2.1.1941. c. Reports
Cooch Behar Administration Report (1870-71) by c. Houghton.
1. Annual Administration Reports of Cooch Behar State, from 1878-79 -
1942-43, published from the State Press, Cooch Behar.
Complete settlement reports of Cooch Behar, by W.O.A. Beckett, Cooch
Behar, 1876.
Complete settlement reports - Pargana Mekhliganj, Mathabhanga, Cooch
Behar and Tufanganj - by w.o.A. Backett, Cooch Behar, 1874.
Complete settlement report of Pargana Rahimgunge, by Calica Dass
Dutt, Cooch.Behar, 1877.
Settlement completion report of Pargana Lalbazar and Dinhata in the
Cooch Behar State, by G. Dalton, Cooch Behar, 1876.
Report on Cooch Behar in 1788: Vol. II: by Mercer: J"awrence and
Chauvet, John Lewis, Cooch Behar, 1869.
D. Proceedings
Proceedings of the Revenue Board, dated 1st. March, 1773.
Proceedings of ..the Board ·of Revenue, dated the 1st March, 1778.
Proceedings of the . meeting of the State Council held on 19th
November, 1883.
Proceedings of the meeting of the State Council held on 8th
February, 1884.
Proceedings o.f the meeting of the. State Council held on 27th i\·larch,
1886. 2. Proceedings of the meeting of the State Council held on 2nd February,
1889.
Proceedings of the meeting of the State Council held on 11th August,
1936.
E. Memorandum
Memorandum submitted by the Dewan of Coach Behar on the 4th
September 1888, containing proposals related to the fixing of rates for
the new settlement of the Coach Behar State.
F. Gazetters
West Bengal District Gazetters Koch Bihar, by Durgadas Mazumder,
Calcutta, 1977.
The Coach Behar Desk Gazetter for the year 1934, Coach Behar, 1934.
Coach Behar Gazette from 1893-1949, Coach Behar.
Gazetters - Eastern Bengal 5 Volumes, Calcutta, 1910.
Gazetter ·of Bengal and North...;. East India, Reprint, Delhi, 1978, by Allen,
B.C.,. Gait, E.A., Allen, C.G.H., Howard, H.F.
G. Acts, manuals etc.
Coach Behar Tenancy Act, 1910 (Act. V of 1910), Coach Behar,1910.
Correspondi:mce.rclattqg to the Patit Charcha settlement of the State of
Cooch Behar - 1882-1885, Coach Behar, 1903.
3. Correspondence relating to the resettlement of the State of Cooch
Behar - 1885-1898, Cooch Behar, 1903.
Hand Book of Circular Orders and Notifications & C., from May, 1893 -
December, 1929, Cooch Behar State Press,1930.
Directorate of Land Records and Surveys,· West Bengal, Calcutta, 1934.
The Cooch Behar Select Records, Vol. I, Cooch Behar, 1882.
The Cooch Behar Select Records, Vol. II, Cooch Behar,1884.
Orders and Notifications of State Council, Cooch Behar, Cooch
Behar,1891.
Letters and proceedings having the force of law in the state of Cooch
Behar, Cooch Behar, 1881.
Census of Bengal, 1871 by H.Baverly, Calcutta, 1872.
Cooch Behar State Budget Estimates, 1934-1941, Cooch Behar State
Press, Cooch Behar.
Government of West Bengal - Census 1951 - West Bengal District Hand
Book - Cooch Behar, Calcutta, 1953.
Government of West Bengal - Census 1961 - West Bengal District
Census Hand Book - Cooch Behar, Calcutta, 1966. ll. Secondary Soource
Books
Acharya, N. N. - Assam and the neighbouring States - Historical
Documents, New Delhi, 1983.
4. Aitchison, c.u. - Treaties Engagements and Sannuds relating to India, II Vols.,
Calcutta, 1892.
Asedi, F.D. - Early Revenue History of Bengal and the 5th Report - 1812,
London, 1917.
Banerjee, A.C. - The Eastern Frontier of British, Calcutta,1934.
Baroda, Maharaja - The palaces of India, London, 1986.
Banerjee, A.C. - The Agrarian System of Bengal - 1582 - 1793, Vol. X,
Calcutta,l980.
Bondyopadhya, Bhagavati Charan - Kochbiharer Itihas (in Bengali), Cooch
Behar, 1289 B.S.
Bhattacharjee, s. - The East India Company and the Economy of Bengal (from
1704 - 1740), Calcutta, 1969.
Baroah, Padmanath Gohain - Assam Burgangi, Gauhati, 1976.
Baden - Powell, B.H. - Land Revenue and tenure in British India, Oxford,
1907.
Bhattachrjee, J.P. (Ed.) - Studies in . Indian Agricultural Economies, Bombay,
1958 •. o·
Banerjee, Anil Chandra - The Agrarian System of' Bengal, Two Volumes,
Calcutta, 19 80.
Bloch, Marc - Feudal Society, London, 1961.
Barner, Robert - Agrarian class structure and economic development. in Pre
Industrial Europe, Past and Present, No. 70, 1976.
Beatlie and Lieuhudt (Ed.) - Stud!es in Social Anthropology, Oxford, 1975.
5. Buclaud, C.E. - Bengal under the Lt. Governors, 2 Vols., Calcutta, 1902.
Campbell, A. Cladue - Glimpses of Bengal, Vol. I, Calcutta,1907.
Chamber of Princes - British Crown and Indian States, Delhi, 1988.
Cronin, Richard Paul - British Policy and Administration in Bengal, 1905-1912,
Calcutta, 1977.
Callister, Peter - Bhutan and the British, London, 1987.
Chakraborty, J.C. - The Native States of India, Calcutta, 1895.
Chatterjee, P.N. ....: The Resettlement of the Town of Cooch Behar, Cooch
Behar, 1913.
Chatterjee, S. K. - Kirata - Jana - Krti, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Revised
2nd Ed., 1964.
Chaudhuri, H.arendra Narayan - The Cooch Behar State and its Land Revenue
Settlements, Cooch Behar, 1903.
Dawson, Andrew H. - The Land Problem in the Developed Economy, London,
1984.
Devi · Gayatri & Sa:nta Rama Rao -: The Princes Remembers, Gaziabad, 1982.
-Devi Sunity - The AutobiographY of ·an Indian Princes, London, 1921.
Deb, Arabinda - India and \'Bhutan .:.. ·A Study in Frontier Political Relations,
Calcutta, 1976.
6. Das, Biswanath & Majumdar, S.(Ed.) - Princely Cooch Behar - A Documentary
Study on Letters, (1790-1863), Calcutta,1990.
Forbes, Rosita - India of the Princes, London, 1939.
Firminger, · W.K. (Ed.) - The fifth report from the Select Committee of the
House of Commons, 3 Vols, Calcutta, 1917-18.
Famine Inquiry Commission - Report on Bengal, Reprint, Delhi, 1984.
Ghoshal, S.C. - A History of Cooch Behar, Cooch Behar,· 1949.
Goswami, Shrutidev - Aspects of Revenue Administration in Assam, 1826-1974,
Delhi, 1987.
Gait, Edward - A History of Assam, Calcutta, 1905.
Guerreu, Alain - La Feodalism : Urn Horizon Theorigue, Paris, 1980.
Howard, H.F. - Gazetter of Bengal and North-East India, Reprint, Delhi~ 1978.
Hunter, w.w. - A Statistical Account of Bengal, Vol. X, London, 1877.
Hilton, Rodney The transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, Verso
. Edition, 1978.
Hamilton, Francis Buhanan - History of Cooch Behar (being an extract of· a
pasage from Buchanan's account of Rangpur} in the Journal of the
·As.iatic Society of Bengal ; Vol.VII, Part I, 1838, Calcutta, 1838.
Habib, Irfan (Ed.} - Classifying Pre-colonial India, Delhi,1986.
Jeffrey Robin (Ed.} - The People, Princes, and. Paramount Power, Delhi,1978. ·
Jena, Krishna Chandra - Land Revenue Administration in Orissa, During the
nineteenth Century, Delhi, 1968.
7. Jenkins, Francis - Sketch of the connection of the British Government with
Kooch Behar (in the Selections from the Records of the Bengal
Government, No. 5), Calcutta, 1851.
Kothari, Rajani - Politics in India, Delhi,1986.
Kessinger Tom - Vilayatpur - 1948-1968 Social Economic change in a North
Indian Village, University of California Press, 1974.
Mali, D.D. - Revenue Administration in Assam, New Delhi,1985.
Mazumder, R.C. - History of Bengal (Modern age) Part I, Delhi, 1978.
Misra, B. B. - The origin of the Indian Middle Class, New Delhi, 1971.
Morrow, Anne - Highness the Maharajas of India, London,1987.
Mehra, P.L.- The Young Husband Expedition - An Interpretation, New
York,1968.
Mukhopadhyay, S.C. - British Residents at the Darbar. of Bengal Nawabs at
Murshidabad 1757-72, Delhi.
M~rtin, Montgomery - Eastern India, three volumes, 1838, First Indian reprint
1976, Delhi.
Moreland, W.H. - The Agrarian system of Moslem India, Delhi,1988.
Moosvi, Shireen - The Economy of the Mughal Empire, C. 1595, Delhi,1987.
Moffatt Mills, A.j - Report ·on the Province of Assam, Gauhati, 2nd Ed. 1984.
Neogy,A.K. - The Paramount Power And. The Princely States, Calcutta, 1979.
Pemberton, R.B. - Report on Bhootan, Calcutta.
Phukan, Holiram DheKial· - Assam Burangi,Ed. by Bhattachrjee, J.M.,Gauhati,
1962.
8. Prasad, Rajeshwari - Some Aspects of British Revenue Policy in India,1773-
1833, Delhi, 1970.
Rennie, David Field - Bhotan and the Story of the Dour War, London 1866,
Reprint, Delhi, 1970.
Roy, Nihar Ranjan - Banglar Itihas (Adiparba), (in Bengali), 3rd Ed. Calcutta,
1980.
Reddy, Ramkrishna V - Economic History of Hyderabad State, Delhi, 1987.
Ryley, J. Horton - Ralph Fitch - England's Pioneer to India and Burma,.
London, 1899.
Sarkar, J.N.- The History of Bengal, Patna, 1977.
Sen, Dr. S.N. - Prachin Bangia Patra Sankalan, Calcutta, 1942.
Sundrs, D.H.E. - Survey and SettJ.ement on the Western Duars in the District
of Jalpaiguri, (1889-95), Calcutta,1895.
Saklani, Atul - The History of a Himalayan Princely State, Delhi, 1987.
Sharma, M.L. & Punia, R.K.(Ed.) - Land Reforms in India, Delhi, 1989.
.Si~diqui, N.A~. - Land Revenue Administration under the Mughals, (1700-1750), Delhi,1980.
Turner, Samuel - Account of An Embassy To The Court of The Teshoo Lama
In Tibet, London, 1800, Reprint, Delhi, 1971.
Todarmal - Land in West Bengal, Siliguri,1990.
Long, ~evd •. J. - Selections from unpublished records of Government, Ed. by
Saba, Mahadevaprasad, Calcutta, 1973.
Vasua, N.N. - The Social History of Kamrupa, Vol. I, New Delhi,1983.
Wolf, Eric R - Europe and People without Historv, University of California
Press, 1982.
9. Unpublished thesis
Das, Kamalesh Chandra - The modernisation of a princely State Coach Behar
under Maharaja Nripendra Narayan (1863-1911).
Guha Roy, Shyamal Chandra - Study of some aspects of the History of Kamta
Koch Behar.
10.