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India: Its Administration & Progress

1888

Since that time great chang3s have been made in the constitution of the Indian Legislature in the organisation of the Cis/4 Services and Army and in other branches of the administration while the progress of the countrin wealth and material prosperity has been immense. [...] 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 of 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 freqgently and immedia [...] As the amount of watery vapour which air can hold in suspension varies with the temperature of the air mid increases with the teperature any cause whicli" cool the current from the sea leads to condensation of the vapour and to phe fall of rain._ One of the chief of 'such causes is the existence of. [...] A great condensation of rain is the immediate result of the fall in the temper ture of the hot moist air as it is forced to rise in passing across the mountains.' On the face of the Ghats not far from Bombay the annual rainfall in some places exceeds 250 inches ; but a very large part of the moisture which the current of air contains is drained away by the excessive precipittion near the coa
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Preface
v-xxii John Strachey view
Chapter.I Introductory
1-18 John Strachey view
Chapter II The Geography of India
19-30 John Strachey view
Chapter III The Himalaya
31-42 John Strachey view
Chapter IV The Constitution of the Government in India
43-65 John Strachey view
Chapter V The Home Government
66-73 John Strachey view
Chapter VI The Civil Services
74-90 John Strachey view
Chapter VII The Laws and the Administration of Justice
91-110 John Strachey view
Chapter VIII The Finances and Public Revenues
111-122 John Strachey view
Chapter IX Revenues Other Than Those Derived from Taxation
123-159 John Strachey view
Chapter XI Revenues Derived from Taxation
160-173 John Strachey view
Chapter XII Revenues Derived from Taxation
174-185 John Strachey view
Chapter XIII Foreign Trade—Home Charges—Currency—Weights and Measures
186-208 John Strachey view
Chapter XIV Public Works—Famine
209-230 John Strachey view
Chapter XV The Public Debt—Famine Insurance
231-239 John Strachey view
Chapter XVI Education in India
240-281 John Strachey view
Chapter XVII Races—Languages—Castes—Religions and Superstitions
282-313 John Strachey view
Chapter XVIII An Indian Province
314-331 John Strachey view
Chapter XIX. An Indian Province
332-357 John Strachey view
Chapter XX. An Indian Province
358-378 John Strachey view
Chapter XXI An Indian Province
379-402 John Strachey view
Chapter XXII Bengal
403-433 John Strachey view
Chapter XXIII The Army in India
434-451 John Strachey view
Chapter XXIV The Native States
452-489 John Strachey view
Chapter XXV Conclusion
490-506 John Strachey view
Index
507-515 John Strachey view

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