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India

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 Narba& 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 Govcrnor-General in Comicil under the supreme authority of the British Government at home has of course from another po [...] tract the waters of the Narbada and Tapti flow westward to the Arabian Sea With these exceptions all the chief rivers of tie peninsula the SOn the Mahanadi the Godaveri the Kistna and Kavari flow eastward and excepting the SOn which joins the Ganges they all fall into the Bay of Bengal. [...] Although in the southern or tropical region the m can temperature of the year is higher the variations of temperature between slimmer 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 Alaknanda which has a much longer course and at all seasons of the year a much larger body of water than the Blitigirathi ; its most distant sources are on the southern side of the watershed near the Niti and 1VIAna passes into Tibet and it collects the drainage of the peaks and glaciers of the KumCton and Garhwal Himalaya from Nanda Devi to the sacred shrines
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Pages
528
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146957
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Frontmatter
vii-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 Himálaya
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
123-131 John Strachey view
Chapter X Revenues Other Than Those Derived from Taxation
132-159 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 DebtȄFamine 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
507-512 John Strachey view

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