A Coordinated Study of Surveys of Natural Resources Which are Being Carried on by the Survey of India, Geological Survey of India, Soil and Land Use Surveys, Forest Surveys, Cadastral Surveys and Town Planning Surveys

Abstract

The first opportunity of any regular survey came, however, in Bengal where as a result of the victory at Plassey, the English Company obtained the grant of the 24-Parganas and a close alliance with the Nawab of Bengal, and then in 1760 they obtained from the Nawab the further grant of the provinces of Chittagong, Burdwan, and Midnapore, practically the whole of lower Bengal. Knowledge of geography of Bengal was at this period practically confined to the banks of the Ganges and Hooghly rivers.