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Speeches and Papers on Indian Questions 1901 and 1902

1902

The rule of the East India Company came to an end after the Indian Mutiny of 1357 and a great famine swept over Northern India in the early years of the aministration of the Crown. [...] The generation of Canning and Lawrence of Sir Charles Wood and Sir Stafford Northcote passed away and after a period of uninterrupted peace in India the succeeding generation of statesmen no longer thought it necessary to sacrifice a prospective rise in the land revenue to promote the welfare and contentment of t4 people or to connect the interests of the proprietors of the soil with the stabil [...] I am old enough Sir to remember the last yeas of the rule of the East India Company ; and I distinctly remember the day when 43 years ago it was prclaimed in every town and village of India that the East India Company was abolished and the empire had passed under the direct administration of the Crown. [...] The closing years of the 19th century have revealed to Englishmen that a greater danger than the Mutiny of 1857 has overtaken India in the impoverish-- mem of the people and the frequency and intensity of famines. [...] Sweep away the present polity of distrust and exclusion concede to the people of India some control over their own laws and adminitration make them cosharers in the management of their finances —and they will be jointly responsible with you Englishman in the eyes of the world for the prevention of famines and for the prosperity of the E V. RESTRICTIONS ON LAND ALIENATION.
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Pages
212
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.141859
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Ramesh C. Dutt view
I. The Indian Land Question
1-18 unknown view
II. India and the National Liberal Federation
19-23 unknown view
III. Social Progress in India
24-26 unknown view
IV. The Land Tax Railways and Irrigation
27-33 unknown view
V. Restrictions on Land Alienation
34-36 unknown view
VI. The Economic Causes of Indian Famines
37-50 unknown view
VII. Famines and the Famines Commission of 1900
51-68 unknown view
VIII. The Economic Condition of India
69-88 unknown view
IX. Indian Agriculture
89-105 unknown view
X. Indian Manufacturers
106-128 unknown view
XI. Bombay Land Revenue Amendment Act
129-149 unknown view
XII. Enquiry into the Economic Condition of India
150-156 unknown view
XIII. Speech at Madras
157-164 unknown view
XIV. First Reply to Lord Curzon’s Land Resolution
165-175 unknown view
XV. Second Reply to Lord Curzon’s Land Resolution
176-190 unknown view
XVI. Third Reply to Lord Curzon’s Land Resolution
191-200 unknown view
XVII. Fourth Reply to Lord Curzon’s Land Resolution
201-203 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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