Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c31.8

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c31.8

As the week days are counted from Friday, the first day following was Saturday, which in the year 1851 A.D. was the 11th of April. Should the large fraction of ·767 of a day be reckoned as a whole day, then the initial day of the solar year in Northern India would be Sunday, 12th April 1857, and this I find is the actual date given for Bengal in the Calcutta Gazetteer of that year.

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