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The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday July 23rd 1878

1878

As the teat of the Bill has not yet been published we reserve criticism and merely state that the Council does not recognise the necessity of modifying in any way our system of collecting the revenue confining itself entirely to legislation on the subject of the relations between the ryot and the money lender. [...] Ton identity of our attitude all through 1876-77 towards Afghanistan with that of 1838 was startlingly ominous in the eye of every one whoknew the history of the latter Then as' last year the policy was not the policy of India but of the Ministers of the Crown. [...] Mohendra Lal Sircar's nomination to the Faculty of Medicine in the Calcutta Univemity Ott the ground that be practices homoeopathy The University is merely a corporation of learned men associated together for the purpose of maintaining a high standard of culture in the country by making the diplomas which they confer the only passport of admission into the professions. [...] The generous influence of land the enfeebling influence of commerce the emasculation of resolnte will in the landlords the coining irruption of the barbarians' (Russians) the drunards the peace-at-any price party the free-traders the rise in gold mistaken for a fall in silver flit before us or keep moving and mingling in this extraordinary book like the shifting bits of glass in a kalei [...] In opposition to this laissez fire view we believe that dissatisfaction with the amount of his wage is but the symptom of a far wider and more general feeling of discontent on the part of the workman and that it is the business the most pressing business of our statesmen to ascertain the precise nature of this discontent and to do their bast to ameliorate its causes.
government politics public policy
Pages
26
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120041
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The Friend of India and Statesman
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English Supplement to the Friend of India and Statesman
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