The Board of Revenue was a Colonial British institution and part of the British Raj

British Raj

British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

 in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It provided the crucial role of revenue management during the period when the British East India Company

British East India Company

The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...

 ruled.It was a creation of the East India Company in 1781.The Board of Revenue was formed to help the company's government in the detailed work of revenue and admisnistration.The Britishers had discovered "a synthesis between the collection of revenue and the general administration". The first Board of Revenue was set up in Bengal in 1786, Tamil Nadu soon followed suit.In the course of time this organization came to be set up in most other provinces. Thus ,today we find a Board of Revenue in all states except Andhra Pradesh, Gujrat,Maharashtra , which have Revenue Tribunals and Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, which have one or more Financial Commissioners instead of a Board.

Board of Revenue is also an institution of Government of Bangladesh and is headed by a secretary

Secretary

A secretary, or administrative assistant, is a person whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, communication & organizational skills. These functions may be entirely carried out to assist one other employee or may be for the benefit...

 within the Ministry of Finance.