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The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record (Third Series) April 1901

1901

All that we have at present to work on are the statistics of the area and population afflicted the number of persons who received 'relief the nature of the relief given and the Government outlay incurred in consequence of the famine. [...] In 1896-97 the most afflicted tract comprised the south and west of the Gangetic Valley Central India and the whole of the Central Provinces while the dry Deccan " area east of Bombay and north of Madras also suffered severely ; and it was considered remarkable in that the Central Provinces south of the Nerbudda which had till then never known a serious failure of the rains now had its first [...] I come next to the volume and geographical distribution of those numbers and the indictions they give as to the intensity of the distress ; for it must be remembered that we have no other real test of the pressure of a. famine except that which is afforded by the number of those who apply for relief and the proportion they bear to the rest of the population. [...] The stock explanation of all variations whether in the consumption of spirits in the absorption of learning or in the number of crimes is the 254 The Indian Seen-lariats. [...] seeing that there were pirates in all the seas and risks of capture and death at the hands of the Spaniaris or thDutch and to make up for these risks the Queen glve the new company a monopoly of the trade in all the coasts and islands between the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan.
government politics public policy
Pages
216
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120018
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Famine in India 1899-1900
225-242 Charles Elliott view
The Indian Secretariats and Their Relation to the General Administration
243-254 F. Loraine Petre view
Scotsmen in India
255-274 John Jardine view
English Jurisprudence and Indian Studies in Law
275-284 unknown view
The Nineteenth Century and the Musulmans of India
285-293 S.Khuda Bukhsh view
The Present Condition and Future Prospects of Uganda
294-302 Harold Bindloss view
The Troubles of Australian Federation
303-314 G.B. Sydnev view
The Bible the Avesta and the Inscriptions
315-321 Lawrence Mills view
An Afghan Legend
322-330 H. Beveridge view
A History of the French Missions to Siam
331-343 Pinya view
Common Salt as a Preventive of Cholera and Plague in India
344-358 C.Godfrey Gumpel view
Common Salt in Relation to Health
359-362 George Brown view
Marco Polo’s Tangut
363-378 Pvinya view
Siam’s Intercourse With China
379-385 G. E. Gerini view
Proceedings of the East India Association
386-394 unknown view
Correspondence Notes and News
395-402 unknown view
Reviews and Notices
403-421 unknown view
Our Library Table
421-428 unknown view
Summary of Events
429-438 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view