The Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat (Urdu: صدر دیوانی عدالت, Bengali: সদর দেওয়ানি আদালত) (English: Sudder Dewanny Adawlut) was the Supreme Court of Revenue in British India established at Calcutta by Warren Hastings in 1772.[1] It was reformed in 1780 and again in 1793 by the British Parliament.[2] The court's judges were the Governor General and Council Members of the East India Company, assisted by native judges and officers of revenue.[3]
- ^ A Comprehensive History of India, Volume 3
- ^ Campbell, Lawrence Dundas (ed), Asiatic Annual Register for 1802, or A View of the History of Hindustan and of the Politics, Commerce and Literature of Asia, London, J. Debrett, 1803, footnote pp.97–100, Miscellaneous Tracts [1]
- ^ Campbell