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The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday August 27th 1878

1878

The Committee recommends that in the case of sales in the Landed Estates Court the Judges should have the power of sanctioning perpetuity grants by owners including limited owners to their tenants and that for the purchase of the interest to ho acquired by the tenant under such grant the Board of Works might make advances to be secured as a first charge upon the land. [...] Such for example are the methods of recruiting the constitution of regiments the formation of reserves the distrbution of the Indian garrison the armies of native feudatories. [...] IT is impossible to judge at this moment of the nature of the amnesty granted by the Governor of the Cape to those whom he terms the " rebels." It may be assumed however that the act is not inconsistent with the policy expressed in his speech at the opening of the Cape Parliament in ono paragraph of which he said :—" Operations will be continuously and vigorously prosecuted until the rebels [...] It is a bitter truth that we are governing India for the sake of the services ; to feed the services is the chief end of all our administrative machinery it is the chief aim of all our reforms and it is the insuperable obstacle to reforms that the public interest really call for. [...] At the present moment in spite of the Secretary of State's pledge in spite of the assurance given only the other day in the House of Commons the official plan is to extend the period of transition for three or four years.
government politics public policy
Pages
26
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120041
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The Friend of India and Stateman
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English Supplement to the Friend of India and Stateman
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