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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed	2011-04-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surnames	Goldsmid
	First Name(s)	Henry Edward
	Year of Birth	1812
	Year of Death	1855
	Entry	Of the Bombay Civil Service : born May 9, 1812 : son of Edward Goldsmid : educated privately and at Haileybury : went to the Bombay Presidency, 1832 : became assistant to the Revenue Commissioner, Mr. Williamson, in 1835 : devised the Revenue Survey and assessment system of Western India, and applied it, 1835-45 : Private Secretary to Sir G. R. Clerk, Governor of Bombay, 1847-8 : Secretary in the Revenue Department in 1848, and Chief Secretary, 1854. He was the founder of a school of revenue officers who gave effect to the ryotwari system of direct tenure of the cultivators from the Government as landlord : the system generally adopted in W. India : Goldsmid died at Cairo, Jan. 3, 1855.

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