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The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday September 10th 1878

1878

The copy of letter of remonstrance from the late J. B. Mackonockle Deputy Commissioner of the Sultanporo district upon the suicidal policy" that was being followed in the collection of the land revenue during the last famine must we think prove to the most sceptical the truth of our impeachment of Sir George Cooper and the impossibility of blame being fairly transferred to the shoulders o [...] Behold the gulf between ourselves and the people 1 So wide so hopeless is it that hundreds of thousands of the people may be dying of hunger in the neighbourhood of places like Lucknow Agra and Bareilly without a whisper of the dreadful fact reaching Calcutta on the one side or Simla on the other 1 Nay so complete is the gulf that the true state of matters does not seem to have been known [...] The MUM Las Lem treated of as if it were a drawing aside of the veil from the secrets of the norm and an exposure of the vice which the rules of native society lance to cunceal. [...] Wee' the paper we taro quoted says The emend (that is the second eirai ll i l mg of the prerogative) "was that in which " the dignity of the country was compromised by the Geneva " arbitration and the treaty of Washingtomm " we are at a lees to know what is meant. [...] This would in no very Mug period of tune bring about the transfer to the !itete or to the eucietiee of the bulk of the property of the country.
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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