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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record January 1897

1897

The author of that treatise which is followed in Bengal propounded for the first time the doctrine that the ownership of the son in the property of the father arises not at the birth of the son but at the death of the father. [...] Lord Stanley of Alderley for having in the 1-louse of Lords given expression to the views and feelings of the Mussulman Comunity in India with regard to the recent decision of the Privy Council on the question of Waqf which the Mussulmans consider as inconsistent with the provisions of their Law and Religion and as tending to disturb many of their long-cherished social charitable and religious [...] The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has not only usurped legislative power but an article by " an old Political " on " the Jurisdictions of the Indian Princes and of the Paramount Power " in the October number of the Asiatic Quarterly " shows that it has encroached on Executive functions and that at a time when the Separation of the Judicial and Executive powers and the prevention of en [...] The murder of two British officers at Fort Sandeman and the wounding of a third may have been the isolated act of a madman —but why has the 4oth Pathans the regiment in which the crime was committed been ordered to return to India if the authorities do not see in the occurrence the suggestion of an evil spirit pervading the whole body ? That regiment by the way is composed entirely of Patha [...] Indeed he is overcareful to say that the defects are in the system and that the fault is not to be laid at the door of individuals.. and while holding up these defects to the light he acknoledges the ability and integrity of the members of the Civil Service and the benefits flowing from the administrtion of justice under British rule.
government politics public policy
Pages
249
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120018
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v unknown view
The Privy Council as Judges of Hindu and Mussulman Law
1-13 Lord Stanly of Alderlev view
The Truth About the Indian Army
14-29 Colonel Hanna view
“Executive” Versus “Judicial” in Lower Bengal
30-43 C.D. Field view
The Present Indian Famine and the Rupee.
44-50 Leslen Probvn view
Sun Yat Sun General Gordon and Li Hung-Chang
51-62 unknown view
The Royal Niger Company’s Expedition
63-67 Baron Ravisi view
the Origin of the Gold Myth—an Episode in Rhodesian History
68-76 A.G.C. Duyl view
The French in Indo-China
77-95 E.H. Parkar view
The Dutch in Atjeh
96-107 A.G.C. Duyl view
Essays by Sanscritists-the Gurupuja Kaumudi
108-113 C.H. Tawney view
The Egyptian Chronicle of Ibn Iyas
114-123 Karl Vollrs view
Quarterly Report on Semitic Studies and Orientalism
124-125 Edward Montet view
Native and European Grammarians of Arabic.—a Reply.
126-128 M.J. Goeje. view
Fourteenth Review on the “Sacred Books of the East” Series. Clarendon Press Oxford. the Zend Avesta. Part ii.Translated by James Darmesteter.(Vol. xii.)
129-137 L.H. Mills view
Anglo—Indian Cookery
138-143 A. Herbert view
A Plain Account of Buddhism (in two Parts).—Part ii.
144-158 John Beames view
A Neglected Literary Field
159-171 unknown view
Proceedings of the East India Association
172-179 unknown view
Correspondence Notes and News
180-197 Abdullah Shami view
Reviews and Notices
198-234 unknown view
Summary of Events
235-244 unknown view