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Zemindar

2007-04-19T00:51:19Z

Poyntz: New page: Zemindar means landowner. Zameen = Land (urdu word) dar = owner From Hobson Jobson One holding land on which he pays revenue to the government direct and not to any intermediate superior. ...

Zemindar means landowner. Zameen = Land (urdu word) dar = owner
From Hobson Jobson One holding land on which he pays revenue to the
government direct and not to any intermediate superior. In Bengal proper
the zemindars hold generally considerable tracts of land, on a permanent
settlement of the amount to be paid to the Government.
Zemindars then leased out land to farmers and made a living.

Contributed to the India list by Douglas & Audrey Augier, Dec. 16 1997

[[Category:Occupations]]

Writer

2007-04-19T00:42:29Z

Poyntz:

[[Category:Occupations]]
A writer was the lowest occupation in the East India Company. They were the
clerks who maintained the ledgers and records of the Company, but who if
they lived long enough become very rich and powerful progressing through the
ranks of the Company service. Even after the demise of the Company around
1860, clerks in the Indian Civil Service were termed, unofficially at least,
writers. The term was/is also used in the Royal Navy for clerks.

Contributed to the India list by Anthony West, March 7, 2007

Writer

2007-04-19T00:42:11Z

Poyntz: New page: Category:Occupation A writer was the lowest occupation in the East India Company. They were the clerks who maintained the ledgers and records of the Company, but who if they lived l...

[[Category:Occupation]]
A writer was the lowest occupation in the East India Company. They were the
clerks who maintained the ledgers and records of the Company, but who if
they lived long enough become very rich and powerful progressing through the
ranks of the Company service. Even after the demise of the Company around
1860, clerks in the Indian Civil Service were termed, unofficially at least,
writers. The term was/is also used in the Royal Navy for clerks.

Contributed to the India list by Anthony West, March 7, 2007

Conductors

2007-04-18T23:54:16Z

Poyntz:

[[Category:Occupations]]
This is what "Ian A Baxter" says in his "A Brief Guide to Biographical
Sources" under the heading:-
"Departmental and Warrant Officers of The East India Company?s Armies 1708
1861, and the Indian Army 1861 1947"

"Warrant officers in the Company?s armies held the ranks of Sub Conductor
and Conductor, serving mainly in the Ordnance, Commissariat and Public Works
Departments. They were recruited from the Town Major?s List (called
Effective Supernumeraries in Madras) which in turn was largely recruited
from the NCOs of the Company?s European regiments (see p 9) although
occasionally NCOs of British regiments stationed in India were appointed to
it.
In 1859 the Town Major?s List became the Unattached List, and when the
Company?s European regiments were amalgamated with the British Army in 1860
new recruits to the Unattached List were appointed solely from NCOs of
British regiments stationed in India.
Conductors were eligible for promotion to Departmental Officer, ie Deputy
Assistant Commissary, Assistant Commissary etc, and these grades were
eventually given complementary honorary officer ranks ranging from Honorary
Lieutenant to Honorary Major."

Contributed to India list by Michael Quin-Conroy, Nov. 11 2003

Conductors

2007-04-18T23:46:34Z

Poyntz: Conductors and Sub Conductors

[[Category:Occupation]]
This is what "Ian A Baxter" says in his "A Brief Guide to Biographical
Sources" under the heading:-
"Departmental and Warrant Officers of The East India Company?s Armies 1708
1861, and the Indian Army 1861 1947"

"Warrant officers in the Company?s armies held the ranks of Sub Conductor
and Conductor, serving mainly in the Ordnance, Commissariat and Public Works
Departments. They were recruited from the Town Major?s List (called
Effective Supernumeraries in Madras) which in turn was largely recruited
from the NCOs of the Company?s European regiments (see p 9) although
occasionally NCOs of British regiments stationed in India were appointed to
it.
In 1859 the Town Major?s List became the Unattached List, and when the
Company?s European regiments were amalgamated with the British Army in 1860
new recruits to the Unattached List were appointed solely from NCOs of
British regiments stationed in India.
Conductors were eligible for promotion to Departmental Officer, ie Deputy
Assistant Commissary, Assistant Commissary etc, and these grades were
eventually given complementary honorary officer ranks ranging from Honorary
Lieutenant to Honorary Major."

Contributed to India list by Michael Quin-Conroy, Nov. 11 2003

Category:Occupations

2007-04-18T22:04:57Z

Poyntz: Removing all content from page

Category:Occupations

2007-04-18T22:04:15Z

Poyntz: Conductors and sub Conductors

This is what "Ian A Baxter" says in his "A Brief Guide to Biographical
Sources" under the heading:-
"Departmental and Warrant Officers of The East India Companys Armies 1708
1861, and the Indian Army 1861 1947"

"Warrant officers in the Companys armies held the ranks of Sub Conductor
and Conductor, serving mainly in the Ordnance, Commissariat and Public Works
Departments. They were recruited from the Town Majors List (called
Effective Supernumeraries in Madras) which in turn was largely recruited
from the NCOs of the Companys European regiments (see p 9) although
occasionally NCOs of British regiments stationed in India were appointed to
it.
In 1859 the Town Majors List became the Unattached List, and when the
Companys European regiments were amalgamated with the British Army in 1860
new recruits to the Unattached List were appointed solely from NCOs of
British regiments stationed in India.
Conductors were eligible for promotion to Departmental Officer, ie Deputy
Assistant Commissary, Assistant Commissary etc, and these grades were
eventually given complementary honorary officer ranks ranging from Honorary
Lieutenant to Honorary Major."

Contributed to Indai list by Michael Quin-Conroy, Nov. 11 2003