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The Government of India. A Primer for Indian Schools

1891

Further up on the western coast is the harbour of Kurachi near the mouth of the river Indus to which the produce of the Punjab and Afghanistan is now brought by the railway from Lahore and Peshawar and by the new railway from Quetta. [...] The basis of the system of the British Government of India as indeed of every civilized state rests on the assumption of the purity and honesty of purpose of its sevants. [...] In the case of a ruler of a Native state dying without an heir the British Government consults the leading men of the state as to the proper person to be selected to rule and if this person is too young to be able to govern at once a Council of State is appoined as in the case at present of the Gwalior Raj to rule the state under the advice of a selected officer of the Political Department [...] The decisions were liable moreover to be influenced by favouritism or by the arbitrary orders of the ruler of the state and as there existed no right of appeal except to the sovereign the property and even the lives of the people were practically at the mercy of the Judges. [...] But it is in the comparatively minor crimes that the beneficial influence of the Indian Penal Code may be observed ; in the infrquency of religious quarrels ; in the compartive purity of minor officials ; in the evidence of a growth of greater sense of honour in comercial dealing ; in the rarity of cases of insult to women ; and above all in the improvement in the public feeling as rega
education
Pages
80
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146973
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
1-4 Horace Bell view
Preface to First Edition
5-6 H. B. view
Preface to Second Edition
7-8 H. B. view
Chapter I. Introductory
9-11 Horace Bell view
Chapter II. Brief Description of India
12-20 Horace Bell view
Chapter III. The System of Government
21-29 Horace Bell view
Chapter IV. The Government of Native States
30-36 Horace Bell view
Chapter V. Income and Expenditure of the State
37-47 Horace Bell view
Chapter VI. Law and Police
48-58 Horace Bell view
Chapter VII. The Currency of India
59-64 Horace Bell view
Chapter VIII. Public Works
65-73 Horace Bell view
Chapter IX. Conclusion
74-80 Horace Bell view

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