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Bengal Uncovenanted Servants 1849 – 1900

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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Record details'''
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| May1849-1852||'''L/F/10/70''' IOR Neg 57101-2
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||Feint but still legible
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| ||Alphabetical index of European & East Indian Uncovenanted Servants
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| ||These appear to be genuine Uncov.Servants, salaries mostly under 500R p.m with the highest ones up to 1000R
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| ||Coverage:- General, Judicial, Revenue, Marine, Customs, Salt, Opium & Native Officers
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| ||Information given:-
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| ||No, Name, Age, Yrs of residence in India, Years of Service, Marr'd /Unmarried, Prev. Appt., Present Appt., Date, Salary, Total incl. allowances for month
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| ||'''General'''. Finance Offices, Asiatic Soc, Lithographic Press, Geological Survey, Pol. Agencies, Thuggee Dept., Singapore, Penang & Malacca, Eccles., Native Colleges, GPO
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| ||'''Judicial'''. Individuals incl. Deputy Magistrate., Writer & Magistrate., Constable & Overseer of roads; Civil Assistant Surgeon; Head Asst., Commissioner's Office; Apothecary, Asst Surveyor; Deputy Collector, Preventive Officer.
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| ||'''Revenue'''. Board of Customs, Salt & Opium, Calcutta Customs House
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| ||'''Marine'''. Commander of Floating Light Vessel(150R p.m.), Writer Semaphore Dept 15R p.m., Steam Dept, Sea Steamers, Inland Vessels
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| ||'''Native Uncovenanted Servants''', e.g. Secretary to Hindoo College
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| 1854-1856||'''L/F/10/71''' IOR Neg 57102
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||Virtually all '''Military'''. Return of Uncovenanted Servants in Military Offices, whose salaries are passed in the Dept of the Military Auditor General
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| ||Information given:-
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| ||Name, Age, No. of years resident in India, Date & Description of present appt., of previous, Total length of service, present salary, married/unmarried; many born in India. Gives brief history of services, dates enlisted, landed, appointed or transferred.
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| ||Lists some as paid via Adjt. Gen of HEIC and others via Adjt Gen H.M.Troops. Stations include Delhi Magazine Office, N.W. and Central Studs, Commissariat Dept, Ferozepore and Allahabad Magazines.
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| 1856||'''L/F/10/72''' IOR Neg 57102
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||Similar to L/F/10/70
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| 1848-1853||'''L/F/10/73''' IOR Neg 57102-3
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| ||''Unc/S & C/S''
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| ||'''Military'''. Potted histories of miscellaneous staff in Saugor Commissariat, Allahabad PWD, Roorkhee Canals, Cawnpore & Agra, Cossipore Gun Foundry, Ft Wm Arsenal, Loodianah Magazines.
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| ||'''N.B.''' Includes printed staff list ‘Distribution of (Covenanted) Civil Service in N.W. Provinces & the Punjab 1851’
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| 1856-1860||'''L/F/10/74''' IOR Neg 57103
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||'''Military'''. Similar to L/F/10/71 and 73
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| ||Includes misfiled copies of ‘Disbursements on Account of the Ecclesiatical Dept of the Bengal Presidency’
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| ||Also Ecclesiastical Charges relating to Bombay.
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| 1859||'''L/F/10/75''' IOR Neg 57103
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||Similar to L/F/10/70
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| ||Organisations. Alphabetical index at front, relating to 'B' forms.
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| ||'''General Branch'''. B forms pp1-241. Secretary’s Office, Acct Office, Ecclesiastical Establishment, Geological Survey, Govt Lithographic Press, Hospital , Dispensary, Native Colleges and Schools, G.P.O.
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| ||'''Judicial Branch'''. B forms pp 242-538
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| ||'''Revenue Branch'''. B forms pp 539-1004
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| ||'''Marine Dept'''. Alphabetical List; thence Numerical B forms pp 1005-1305
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| ||'''Native Uncovenanted Servants'''. Separate alphabetical List, and List 1- 418 B forms.
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| 1863||'''L/F/10/76''' IOR Neg 57103-4
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||Similar to L/F/10/70
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| 1865-1866||'''L/F/10/77''' IOR Neg 57104-5
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| 1 May 1865, Pt 1||Forms similar to ‘B’ forms. Offices are numbered 1-437, covering General Branch, Judicial, Civil Constabulary. Each office page then shows list of staff, not alphabetical, but usually highest salaries first. Hdgs:- Name, Appt., Mthly Salary; total with expenses
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| 1 May 1865, Pt 2||‘B’ forms. Board of Revenue, Customs, Salt, Cuttack Prov, Opium, Marine - offices numbered 438-666. Form show period of residence in India but this information rarely supplied.
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| 1 May 1866||‘C’ forms1. Offices numbered 1-259, covering General, Magistrates, Police, Opium, Survey and Marine. Each C page shows office staff broadly by seniority.
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| 1868, 1870, 1872||'''L/F/10/78''' IOR Neg 57105-6
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||Index to Offices:- General, Education, Judicial, Commissioners, Judicial Commissioners, Judges, Additional Judges, Magistrates, Small Cause Courts, Police (lists I - V), Deputy Commissioners, Revenue, Collectors, Survey, Marine, Registration Dept, Opium, N.W.P. Customs, Tolls and Salt.
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| 1 Apr 1868||B forms: Name, Appt., Salary, Period of residence in India. All pages stamped 'B' plus page number (1-281)
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| 1870||as 1868 with index & B forms 1-296
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| 1872||as 1868 with index & B forms 1-254
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| 1873, 1874, 1876||'''L/F/10/79''' IOR Neg 57106-7
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| 1 Apr 1873||B forms 1 -297. Form amended to Period of Residence '''while in service of Govt'''.
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| ||''e.g. G W MacLeod, Asst Acct Gen., 800R p.m., 30yrs - 24 days''
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| || ''George Price, Chief Clerk & Acct., 300R p.m., 8 years 9 mth''
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| 1 Apr 1874||B forms 1-286
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| 1 Apr 1876||B forms 1-267
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| 1878-1880||'''L/F/10/80''' IOR Neg 57107
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||Indexed by office; B forms in use
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| 1882, 1884||'''L/F/10/81''' IOR Neg 57108
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| [also 1880-82]||''Unc/S''
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| 1882||For the year 1882, there is a random listing of offices with against each, the relevant B form numbers. Thereafter the B forms are filed numerically. Each B sheet, arranged generally by salary level.
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| ||220 B forms, labelled 'List of Uncovenanted Officers, European & East Indian in the office of………..on 1st April. 1882’. Headings are:-
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| ||Name, European or Eurasian, Appt., Salary, Period of Residence in India.
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| ||Dept Listings:- Opium, Admin., Minor Depts, Law & Justice, Marine, Eccles., Stationery, Post Office, Pol. Agency,Collectorates, Customs, Stamps, Administration, Minor Depts, Law & Justice, Civil Courts, Courts of Small Causes, Criminal Courts, Jails, Registration, Police, Marine, Education, Medical, Printing, Local Funds, Misc.
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| [1880-82]||['''Apparently misplaced PWD Data''']
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| ||Lists of Uncovenanted Servants, European and E. Indian,in P W Dept, Bengal on 1 Apr 1880, 1881 and 1882. Headings are:-
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| ||Names, Appt., salary, period of residence in India, often shows 'born in India'.
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| ||Some forms labelled PWD 94. Others show lists of Superior Grades of uncovenanted civil servants, including some personnel on State & Guaranteed Railways, others in Buildings & Roads and P W D (Railway Branch)]
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| 1884||238 B forms similar to 1882 above.
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| 1885-1888.||'''L/F/10/82''' IOR Neg 57108-9
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| 1 Apr 1885||'''Apparently records of Post Office Circles, on a National basis'''. Bengal, Madras, N.W. Provinces, Assam, Rajputana, Central Provinces, Oudh, Central India, Punjab, British Burma, Bombay, Sind, East Bengal, Bihar, Railway Mail Service Circle.
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| ||Records are similar to B forms; salaries range from Rs.1750 down to Rs.20 p.m.
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| 1 Apr 1886||Usual list of organisations with offices, listing B forms Nos 1-453.
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| ||Branches [Numbers in brackets are of Heads of Revenue]:- Land Revenue (3), Opium (4), Stamps (6), Excise (7),Registration (12), Post Office (15), Gen. Admin.(18), Law & Justice (19), Jails, Police (20), Marine (21), Educ. 22, Eccles(23), Med. (24).
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| 1 Apr 1887||as 1886 - 475 forms
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| 1 Apr 1888||as 1886 - 435 forms
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| 1889-1890||'''L/F/10/83''' IOR Neg 57109-110
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| 1 Apr 1889||With Index of offices and districts relative to page nos of 463 B forms
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| 1 Apr 1890, Pt 1||List of Uncovenanted Officers, European & E Indian, '''gazetted or non-gazetted''' in………….(location). Headings are:-
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| ||Name, Appt., Salary, Period of residence in India while in service of Govt.
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| ||Upper part of form GAZETTED
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| ||Lower part of form Non- GAZETTED
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| ||''e.g. Henry D Watson, Head Clerk, 245 R.p.m., 29yrs 11mths 18 days''.
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| ||[No index; B forms are not numbered.]
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| 1 Apr 1890, Pt 2||Index similar to Apr 1889, 465 B forms
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| 1 Apr 1891||'''L/F/10/84''' IOR Neg 57110-111
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||Usual index of organisations & offices, related to B forms covering all the staff. Typically:-
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| ||Land Revenue, Opium, Benares Opium Agency, Stamps, Excise, Customs, Assessed Taxes, Registration, Post Office, General Admin., Law & Justice, POLICE - Railway Police, Presidency Police, District Executive Police - Marine, Education, Eccles, Medical, Med.Schools & Colleges, Lunatic Asylums, Sanitation & Vaccination,Scientific & other Minor Depts,Stationery & Printing.
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| ||475 B forms. Headings are:-
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| ||Name, Whether European or East Indian, description of Appt, Salary, Period in India in service of Govt.
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| ||N.B. Includes ''Hon Sir Alfred Croft, KCIE; European, Director of Public Instruction - shown as uncovenanted, R.2500 p.m., about 23 yrs in service'' Others receive as little as 30R p.m.
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| 1 Apr 1892||483 B forms (as 1891)
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| 1 Apr 1893||511 B forms - all shown…’while in service of Govt’ (as 1891)
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| 1 Apr 1894||'''L/F/10/85''' IOR Neg 57111
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||Index of offices & districts relating to page nos of 509 B forms (as 1891)
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| 1 Apr 1895||Index of offices & districts relating to page nos of 505 B forms headed by:- '''List of European & E Indian employees other than officers of Covenanted Civil Service & the Army.'''
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| 1896||523 B forms (as 1891)
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| 1897||'''L/F/10/86''' IOR Neg 57112
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||499 B forms (as 1891)
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| 1898||473 B forms (as 1891)
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| 1899||'''L/F/10/87''' IOR Neg 57112
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| ||''Unc/S''
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| ||239 B forms (as 1891).
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| 1900||255 B forms (as 1891)
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