Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. POLITICAL DIVISIONS. SINCE August 2d, 1858, all the territories heretofore under the control of the British East India Company have been vested in the Crown, in the name of which all authority is exercised. The vast region known as British India, includes all the British colonies in India ; and the native states that are, to a greater or less degree, controlled by the English Government. It is divided into ten political districts, each under the jurisdiction of a Lieutenant-governor or Commissioner ; but subject to the aiithority vested in the Governor-general, who acts under the orders of the Hecretary of State for India, and he also appoints the various Lieutenant-governors and Commissioners for the several Presidencies and Provinces.The Provinces of Hyderabad, Mysore, and Coorg, are under the direct administration of the Governor-general. These cover an area of forty-seven thousand six hundred and sixty-one square miles, with a population of six million three hundred and eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and ninety- two. The others are governed by the following functionaries: Lieutenant-governor of Bengal, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred and ninety-one square miles, population thirty-five million nine hundred and seventy-five thousand two hundred and seventy four; Lieutenant-governor of Northwest Provinces, eighty-three thousand eight hundred and seventy-five square miles, population thirty million eighty-six thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight; Lieutenant-governor of the Punjaub, one hundred and two thousand and one square miles, population seventeen million five hundred and ninety-six thousand seven hundred and two; Chief-commissioner of Oudh, twenty-four thousand and sixty square miles, population eleven million two hundred and twent...