Peoples and Problems of India

The executive has to go to the legislativVbuncil for the legislation it requires but the legislative council has no control over the finances or over the administrative acts of the executive nor ate the members of the executive goverment taken from or amenable to the legislature. [...] With the rise of the Himalaya the sea diappeared and the rivers draining the Himalaya flowed into the depression bringing witliAhem the silt which is now the soft of the plain. [...] We are now in Hindustan— the place of the Hindus" as the Mohammedan historians called it ; the heart of ancient Indian civilisation ; the " middle-land " of the later Vedic hymns ; the core of the Mughal empire. [...] One horn of the cow says another proverb alluding to the precaijousness of the raintp 11 " lies within the rainy zone and the other without." The Vindhya hills are the northern boundary of peninsular India or the Deccan. [...] His account of the barbaric splendour of the court of the monarch's state and female guards when he went abroad of his huge standing army of the division of the empire into provinces of the inspectors or newsagents who reporteCon the action of the provincial governors to the king-all theseITS HISTORY are features of the Persian monarchy.