Kachcheri
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Kachcheri is a Hindustani
word initially used for the Revenue Collector's Office in the early years of the British Colonial Administration in Ceylon. (Sri Lanka
) Revenue collection was a main feature of the Dutch pattern of colonial administration. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British colonial administrators were able to move towards a more organised form of government with civil and revenue administration. Thus, the collector’s office, which continued to be locally known as the kachcheri was converted into the Government Agent’s Office . Even after the independence, kachcheri was retained as the district administrative centre and focal point of the provincial administration and placed it under a government agent. However, in 1987, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka made provisions for the establishment of Provincial Councils. Thus, the Provincial Council Administration which came into effect in January 1990 changed the face of kachcheri administration which had remained unaltered since the first half of the nineteenth century.
Hindustani language
Hindi-Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language and the lingua franca of North India and Pakistan. It is also known as Hindustani , and historically, as Hindavi or Rekhta...
word initially used for the Revenue Collector's Office in the early years of the British Colonial Administration in Ceylon. (Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
) Revenue collection was a main feature of the Dutch pattern of colonial administration. In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British colonial administrators were able to move towards a more organised form of government with civil and revenue administration. Thus, the collector’s office, which continued to be locally known as the kachcheri was converted into the Government Agent’s Office . Even after the independence, kachcheri was retained as the district administrative centre and focal point of the provincial administration and placed it under a government agent. However, in 1987, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka made provisions for the establishment of Provincial Councils. Thus, the Provincial Council Administration which came into effect in January 1990 changed the face of kachcheri administration which had remained unaltered since the first half of the nineteenth century.