A History of Assam c21.13

c21.13

It was not to be expected that David Scott, with his multifarious duties and inadequate staff of Assistants, would be able to effect many reforms in the administration of those parts of the Brahmaputra valley which remained under his direct management; nor, indeed, so long as the question of permanent control remained undecided, was this expected or desired. He was most persistent in his efforts to correct the worst abuses, such as the widespread institution of slavery; but his energies, and those of his assistants, were, in the main, directed to the assessment and collection of the revenue.