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

1897

The Times urges very wisely that one of the best preventive measures that the Government can adopt against future famine would be a wide extension of the principle of making the State demand ()tithe land a fixed and moderate sum and not an elastic amount varying with the zeal of the settlement officer and the extreme capability of the land. [...] The river has of course to be crossed either at Belis or at Saglaweya because it would be difficult to continue the line on the right bank df the Euphrates below the latter place on account of the Hindeeya and Samawa marshes of Babylonia and if expense is of no object and the line has to be carried on all along the western side the same draback will be experienced by the absence of comme [...] Now we come to the most important part of the railway scheme between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf where are the sinews of war to come from ? The Ottoman Government cannot supply them either in cash or a guarantee because in the one case she has scarcely enough income for the general purposes of the public services and in the other since the repudiation of her enormous debt of more th [...] I. have now only one suggestion to make most vital to the success of the undertaking ; and that is the managment of the line ought to be left entirely under the control of the company the Ottoman authorities merely rendering them every assistance in their power both as to the required land and the protection of the employes: The company ought to have a strip of land assigned it on both side [...] A SUMMARY of the chief provisions of the above agreement was published in the Times " of the gth of June and it may be of interest to learn something more of the places named in the Convention.
government politics public policy
Pages
236
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120018
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv unknown view
India in the Sixtieth Victorian Year
1-10 Roper Lethbridge view
The Tigris-Mesopotamian Railway and India
11-26 Hormuzd Rassam view
The Burma-China Trade Convention
27-34 E.H. Parker view
Suggested Reforms for China
35-42 Taw Kos view
The Problem of the Races in Africa
43-59 Harriette Colenso view
The Colonies at the Victorian Commemoration.
60-67 F. Begg view
Quarterly Report on Semitic Studies and Orientalism
68-74 Edward Montet view
Native and European Arabic Grammarians
75-78 M.C. Howell view
The International Congresses Oil Orientalists.
79-98 R.N. Cust view
The Poets of the Tamil Lands I
99-102 G.U. Pope view
Sacred Books of the East Series Clareniion Press Oxiord. (Vol.xxiv.)
103-111 L.H. Mills view
Siam
112-119 E.H. Parker view
India Before the English
120-151 R. Sewell view
The Forgotten Vizianagram Treaty
152-160 J.D.B. Gribble view
Japanese Monographs
161-164 Charlotte Salway view
The First Diamond Pioneer in South Africa
165-168 P.E. Wolter view
Proceedings of the East India Association
169-181 unknown view
Correspondence Notes and News
182-203 unknown view
Reviews and Notices
204-222 unknown view
Summary of Events
223-232 unknown view