Prof. Datta has given an insight into the way the English East India Company formulated its agrarian policies from the year they were granted Dewani of Bihar and Bengal by the Mughal Emperor after they won the Battle of Buxar in 1764. He shows the deep interest with which the Company nurtured the institutions of Zamindari which enabled them to contain rural discontent.
Today it gives me pleasure to write the Foreword to the last and the most difficult works of late Dr.K.K.Datta. Its not easy for a student of history like me to do justice to the great work of a legend. When we found out this work at the Archives, I was simply mesmerized by the sheer volume of data and its antiquity. I am amazed by the zeal of the great scholar Dr. Datta who had so much urge to work even at the fag end of his life, when health was failing, to produce this jewel. I immediately contacted Dr.Surendra Gopal, Dr. Hetukar Jha and Dr.Prashant Datta and let them see this work and asked for their opinion on how to proceed on this work. They were elated too and after going through the manuscript they recommended that it should be brought out as early as possible. Thereafter we decided to publish this book as a tribute to the legend, late Dr. K.K.Datta, who had also been the Director of the Bihar State Archives in its formative years and taken it to a great height.
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