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India Its Administration and Progress

1903

The name Hindustan is never applied in India as we apply it to the whole of the Indian continent ; it signifies the country north of the Narbada river and especially the northern portion of the basins of the Ganges and Jumna. [...] Although in the management of the greater portion of the public business immediately affecting the everday interests of the 294 millions of people inhabiting India the part of the so-called Government of India is comparatively small this central power administered by the Governor-General in Council under the supreme authority ot the British Government at home has of course from another poin [...] developed the resources of the country increased the wealth of the people and profoundly altered the coditions of life but they stimulated the vitality of every branch of the administration ; they brought the various provinces of the Empire closer together and England closer to India English influence became stronger and stronger and all classes as they were more frequently and immediatel [...] Although in the southtrn or tropical region the mean temperature of the year is higher the variations of temperature between summer and winter are comparatively small ; and it is in the second region in the plains north of the tropic where the days are longer and the power of the sun more continuous that Indian heat reaches in the summer months its greatest intensity. [...] The main stream is that of the Alakuanda which has a much longer course and at all seasons of the year a mach larger' body of water than the Bluigirathi ; its most distant sources are on the southern side of the watershed near the Niti and Mana passes into Tibet and it collects the drainage of the peaks and.'glaciers of the Kumfion and Garhwal Himfilaya from Nanda Devi to the sacred shrines o
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Pages
542
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142901
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I.Introductory
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Chapter II.The Geography of India
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Chapter III.The Himalaya
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Chapter IV.The Constitution of the Government in India
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Chapter V.The Home Government
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Chapter VI.The Civil Services
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Chapter VII.The Laws and the Administration of Justice
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Chapter VIII.The Finances and Public Revenues
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Chapter IX.Revenues Other than Those Derived from Taxation
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Chapter X.Revenues Other than Those Derived from Taxation (continued)
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Chapter XI.Revenues Derived from Taxation
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Chapter XII.Revenues Derived from Taxation (Continued)
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Chapter XIII.Foreign Trade—Home Charges—Currency—weights and Measures
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Chapter XIV.Public Works—Famine
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Chapter XV.The Public Debt—Famine Insurance
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Chapter XVI.Education in India
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Chapter XVII.Races—Languages—Castes—Religions and Superstitions
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Chapter XVIII.An Indian Province
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Chapter XIX.An Indian Province (continued)
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Chapter XX.An Indian Province (continued)
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Chapter XXI.An Indian Province (continued)
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Chapter XXII.Bengal
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Chapter XXIII.The Army in India
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Chapter XXIV.The Native States
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Chapter XXV.Conclusion
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Index
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Backmatter
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