Английская Википедия:Gokul Ghoshal
Шаблон:Short description Gokul Chandra Ghoshal[1] was a native official of the East India Company who became a prominent and influential landlord by abusing his position and founded the Bhukailash Estate.[2][3][4] He and Devi Singh, Diwan of Rangpur, were part of a number of rent collectors of the East India Company who became notorious for their corruption.[5] Ghoshal had become wealthy and powerful through using his link to the East India Company.[6]
Career
From 1761 to 1764, Ghoshal was the diwan of Chittagong under the East India Company.[2] He also worked as a salt merchant.[7] He was able to build a significant fortune by abusing the power of his office.[2] He served as the banian (agent) to the Governor of Chittagong (future Governor of Bengal), Harry Verelst.[8][9][10] His brother was Maharaja Krishna Chandra Ghoshal.[11] He briefly served as the diwan of 24 Parganas.[12]
Ghoshal was later given the task to revise the land settlement for revenue collection of the Sandwip Island.[2] He dispossessed a number of local zamindars and seized their land for himself.[2] He also secured significant land for his nephew, Joynarain Ghoshal.[2] He had all reclaimed land, known as Noabad Estate, would belong to his nephew, Joynarain Ghoshal, and that he had a written permission for it from Harry Verelst.[8] He also claimed that zamindars and talukdars operating Noabad Estates in Chittagong would need permission from Joynarain.[8] This was immediately challenged by the affected zamindars and talukdars and violence followed.[8] The Chittagong Council declared the written permission a forgery and as such the order illegal in 1797.[8] The land claimed until the cancellation would remain part of the estate of Joynarain.[8]
Ghoshal used a similar forgery order to try to take a portion of a zamidari estate in Rajshahi.[13] He also faced accusations of obstruction from Luis Da Costa, a Portuguese mediator settled in Bengal.[14] He had built a mansion in Kidderpore of Kolkata.[15] He also ran into conflicts with Chowdhury Abu Torab Khan, a zamindar of Sandwip, over revenue collection.[16] This would eventually led a rebellion in Sandwhip against the company and their agents.[17]
When the zamindar of Selimabad in Bakerganj (presently Barisal Division) asked for the administration's help in protecting his land from invasion by an adventurer, Ghoshal was sent.[2] He protected the estate but in payment took half of it.[2][18] His descendant, Kali Sankar Ghoshal, became a raja through the purchase of bonds of the East India Company and would build a place in Jhalokati District on the land acquired by Ghosal from the zamindar of Selimabad.[19]
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