Deputy commissioner (Pakistan)

[7][8][9] However the office of deputy commissioner is deprived of its previous powers of as a district magistrate.

"[11][12][13] The office of a collector/DC during the British rule in Indian subcontinent held multiple responsibilities – as collector, he was the head of the revenue organization, charged with registration, alteration, and partition of holdings; the settlement of disputes; the management of indebted estates; loans to agriculturists, and famine relief.

As district magistrate, he exercised general supervision over the inferior courts and in particular, directed the police work.

[14] The office was meant to achieve the "peculiar purpose" of collecting revenue and of keeping the peace.

Anandaram Baruah, an eminent scholar of Sanskrit and the sixth Indian and the first Assamese ICS officer, became the third Indian to be appointed a district magistrate, the first two being Romesh Chandra Dutt and Sripad Babaji Thakur respectively.