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

1897

As the person who has most to say to the decision of the question as to the need of Hindu and Mussulman Assessors in Indian cases before the Judicial Committee and the one whom it is most necessary to convince is the Lord Chacellor it may be permitted to take the objections raised by him in the House of Lords on the 9th of July last and to examine how they can be met : One of these was that [...] The table of cases referred to in the course of the work amount to 418 cases and the book is calculated to lead even a legal reader to feel that a guide is required to unravel the intricacies and coplications of Hindu Law and that the suggestion of Indian assessors is by no means derogatory to the learning and other qualifications possessed by members of the Judicial Committee. [...] Of these the first to suggest itself in the position in which its reprsentatives would desire to be placed is the educated section of the people : the next the hereditary princes and landowners whose local authority in more despotic days was practically supreme : the third the military races : the fourth the moneyed classes : the fifth the religious leaders Hindu and Muhammadan. [...] We may attribute it partly perhaps to the influence of a gloomy environment as the bright faith of the Vedas spread through the jungle of Central India and the swamps of Bengal : partly to the incorporation of savage faiths by the way : partly to the encouragement by its priests of a lucrative source of profit and partly to the insecurity of life and property which attended at any rate the late [...] Now that the stern logic of events has proved the superiority of the arms of the Japanese who are but " pupils of the Western barbarians " the spirit of reform has really been awakened and the foreign schoolmaster will soon be abroad over the length and breadth of the land.
government politics public policy
Pages
221
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120018
Segment Pages Author Actions
A Reform in the Privy Council
233-236 Lord Stanley view
The Amir the Frontier Tribes and the Sultan
237-247 G.W. Leitner view
Elements of Unrest in India
248-264 unknown view
Suggested Reforms for China
265-273 Taw Ko view
Judicial and Executive Functions in India
274-287 Ramond West view
The Moplas of Malabar
288-300 F. Fawcett view
The Return of the Jews to Palestine and the Zionist Movement
301-311 M. Gaster view
Africa in 1897
312-324 Robert Cust view
Piracy in Morocco
325-329 Ion Perdicaris view
British North Borneo
330-345 Leonard West view
Quarterly Report on Semitic Studies and Orientalism
346-348 Edward Montet view
Report Day by Day of the Paris Oriental Congress
349-356 E. Montet view
The Poets of the Tamil Lands
357-362 G.U. Pope view
“The Sacred Books of the East” Series
362-366 John Beanies view
Buddhist Law
367-375 John Jardine view
Two Retrospects of Egypt
376-386 F.J. Goldsmid view
Tao-Ism what Lao-Tse Meant by Tao
387-396 G.G. Alexander view
Proceedings of the East India Association
397-404 unknown view
Correspondence Notes and News
405-427 unknown view
Reviews and Notices
428-446 unknown view
Summary of Events
447-452 unknown view