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This India arsenal made 'Bengal Native Cavalry type carbine' is smoothbore and. The Tower made Enfield 'Bengal Native Cavalry Carbine' were sealed by the ordnance on 22nd February 1867, under order number /2263. By 1866 the stock of Tower P 53’s became diminished and conditions in India called for another issue of smooth bore carbines resulting in production of the ‘Bengal Light Cavalry Carbine’. Enfield Pattern 1853 cavalry carbines were used by the British army In India. It was with the passing of the Government of India Act 1935, that within British India (which then included much of present-day Pakistan) salt came under the exclusive control of the central government, with the Government of India taking over the task of collecting salt revenue and transferring it from the provincial salt agencies to the Central Excise and Revenue Department. In 1876, separate departments under a Salt Commissioner were set up, and these operated at the level of each British Province and Presidency. In 1856, the government appointed the young William Chichele Plowden, Secretary of the Board of Revenue of the North West Provinces, to report on the establishment of a uniform system of revenue realisation from salt within the British Provinces, and he recommended the extension of the excise system, the reduction of duty, and the introduction of a system of licensing as the measures to achieve this goal.
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Both before and after that, various native rulers of the Indian Princely states (outside British India proper) collected such revenue in accordance with their own revenue and administrative requirements and resources. The organized and uniform collection of tax revenue on salt in British India began under the British Raj. 656 Calibre, Smooth Bore, Percussion Carbine With India Arsenal Marks, Saddle Bar, Ring & Inlaid Brass Disc Marked Excise & Salt. **SOLD 2/2**Victorian British Army In India Native Troops Pattern 1858 / 67 Bengal Light Cavalry Type.