The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) November 1922

Although however from the point of view of one who wished to study and compare the German and French University methods in sits the present state of things is unsatisfactory the University is well worth a visit inasmuch as the arrangements made are on a line with the ideal of German thoroughness the French nation having evidently230 THE CALCUTTA REVIEW made up its mind—inspite of the prevail [...] With equal emphasis it has been maintained on the other side that what is ascribed to deliberate policy on the part of the Company was the inevitable consequence of the Industrial Revolution in England and the unequal fight between the handicraft and the machine product.. [...] The Report of the Customs Committee of 1534."1921] THE FISCAL POLICY OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY 249 large reduction in the import tariff of England itself.' But this is certainly not true of the first two decades of the nineteenth century. [...] The consequent decrease in the yield of the export duty levied on these goods drew the attention of the authorities in India to the decline of the Indian cotton manfactures and as early as 1819 the Governor General informed the Court of Directors that many industrious persons had been thrown out of employment. [...] The illegal exactions of the ill-paid officers the right of search exercised ruthlessly or waived in cosideration of a gratuity the detention of goods on the pretext of search the vexatious rules regarding the taking out of the Rowan isahs or passes made the profession of merchant unpleasant and disreputable on account of the complete state of dependence in which the most respectable people