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Criminal Administration in Bengal & Bihar (1765-1861)

The reform in Bengal was however, delayed for a long ting because the top civilians who the ruled the country were not yet mentally prepared for such unorthodox changes. W. W. Bird. Senior member of Lord Auckland's Council, who presided over the Police Committee of 1837 which was appointed to work out these reforms, frankly stated. "To attempt to transform native peons into anything like the London Police, has always appeared to me to be very much the same as setting about to raise a superstructure without a foundation. The wood out of which such officers are cut does not grow in India, nor do the character, the habits or the manners of the people of the two countries in any respect correspond" (Home Judicial Progs 9 Sept. 1839). This psychology which preferred to govern this country on supposed Oriental methods, which favored despotism, and kept liberal reforms strenuously at bay so long as this could be done, expressed itself most characteristically on the subject of internal administration in the following words of FJ Halliday, the Lt. Governor of Bengal, once an uncompromising liberal criminal administration in Bihar and Bengal (1765-1861).

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