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The Imperial Gazetteer of India The Indian Empire( Economic)

1907

INTRODUCTORY NOTES NOTES ON TRANSLITERATION I 'oa.e/-Sounds a has the sound of a in ` woman.' has the sound of a in father.' e has the vowel-sound in grey.' i has the sound of i in pin.' i has the sound of i in police.' o has the sound of o in bone.' u has the sound of u in bull.' u has the sound of u in flute.' ai has the vowel-sound in mine.' au has the vowel-sound in house.' It should [...] In order to provide a remedy for the heavy loss caused to the Government of India in respect of its gold payments to be made in England and also to relieve foreign trade and finance from the inconvenience due to constant and unforeseen fluctuations in exchange it was resolved in 1893 to close the mints to the free coinage of silver and thus force up the value of the rupee by restricting the cir [...] This tract comprises almost the whole of Madras; Mysore ; the south-east portion of Bombay ; the eastern half of Hyderabad and twthirds of the Central Provinces ; the Orissa and Chord Nagpur Divisions and the Santal Parganas and Birbham Districts of1] AGRICULTURE it Bengal ; parts of the Mirzapur Jhansi and Hamirpur Districts of the United Provinces ; the Baghelkhand States of Central India [...] The cultivator's art consists largely in judging the right time to plough and in getting as much tillage done as is possible in the intervals of heavy rain or during the short period between the cessation of the rains and the sowing time. [...] Voelcker (Improvement of Indian Agriculture chapter v) the normal state of an English soil is wet " and that of most Indian soils "dry " ; and whereas in the former the object is generally to get rid of the superfluous water by means of drainage the difficulty in India is as a rule to keep the moisture in the land.' Hence the paramount importance of irrigation in a country throughout the gre
government politics public policy
Pages
556
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxxvi unknown view
Chapter I.Agriculture
1-101 unknown view
Chapter.II Forests
102-127 unknown view
Chapter.III Mines And Minerals
128-167 unknown view
Chapter.IV Arts and Manufactures
168-256 unknown view
Chapter.V Commerce and Trade
257-315 unknown view
Chapter.VI Irrigation and Navigation
316-364 unknown view
Chapter.VII Railways and Roads
365-417 unknown view
Chapter.VIII Posts and Telegraphs
418-446 unknown view
Chapter.IX Rents Prices and Wages
447-474 unknown view
Chapter.X Famine
475-502 unknown view
Index
503-520 unknown view