Marquess Wellesley’s 1803 itinerary for Viscount Valentia reveals how rank and Company machinery fused to enable elite travel across the Bengal Presidency. From Chitpore Ghat to Bhagalpur, the journey exposes the infrastructures of empire—palanquins, cantonments, escorts—and the social circuits that sustained privilege. Stops at Palashi, Berhampore, Murshidabad, and Jangipur become lenses on military power, administrative…