Advance India

These chapters were contributed in the first instance in the form of special articles to leading newspapers and reviews in India and are now reproduced in book form at the request of many correspondents and with the kind permission of the Editors of the Times of India the Pioneer Capital the Sind Gazette the Indian Review and the Hindustan Review. [...] These are the chief explanations of the miracle of the government of the three hundred and t fte en millions of the great Continent of India by a few thousands of the little islands of Britain. [...] With the rapid development of the country the spread of knowledge the growth of confdence in the ability of Government to maintain order and enfoice justice and the enterprise of yearly increasing numbers of Indian Banks this old habit of keeping reserves of money in the possession of individuals is steadily disappearing. [...] The recent publication of the correspondence that passed between the India Office the Treasury and the Goverment of India in 1899-1902 on the subject of the opening of an Indian Mint to the free coinage of gold brings to light three very interesting and important facts namely (1) that the India Office and the Government of India both endeavoured to give effect to the recommendation of the I [...] This desire on the part of the Government of India for a steady and permanent supply of gold of local production and the importance which the Govetnment of India then attached to this supply of gold from the Indian mines were clearly the outcome of Mr.