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Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots - A Civil Servants Recollections and Impressions of Thirty-seven years of Work and Sport in the Central Provinces and Bengal

1911

The scat majority of the eases which I had to try when I first joined the Service in Jubbulpore had to be tried in a small room where I sat a table without even the dignity of a dais and had in front of me the parties the witnesses and the counsel all talking in the vernacular. [...] The prevalence of English in our courts is undoulitedly due in part to the pressure of work and to the not unnatural desire of officers not well acquainted with the vernacular to get through their cases more easily and more quickly ; but it is al-0 undoubtedly due to the reluctance of members of the Bar to aduress the court in the vernacular. [...] There is no doubt a difficulty now that the age for entrance into the service has been raised in giving a two years' course of probation ; but I am very far from thinking that the raising of the age for the Competitive Examination and the reduction of the period of probation have secured a better class of men from the point of view of the interests of India than the system ut. [...] The personal 4cquaintance with an honourable upright and able member of the Bar the private intercourse with him the acquisition of his ways of looking at questions involving the principles of law and justice and the communication by him of the high traditions of the English Bar were of very great advantage. [...] The (Treater number of the Districts were in the hands of these officers along with a sprinkling of me nbers of the Indian Civil Service ; but the Commissionerships and Secretariate appointments were practically in the hands of the Civil Service.
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Pages
406
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.147062
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xv Andrew Fraser view
Chapter I Early Days
1-12 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter II European Officers of My Province
13-24 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter III More about Central Provinces Officers
25-36 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter IV Indian Officers of My Province
37-46 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter V Judicial and Executive Functions of Our Officers
47-59 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter VI Some Indian Friends
60-74 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter VII The Indian Peoples
75-93 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter VIII Indian Ladies
94-110 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter IX Grain Riots in the Nagpur District
111-125 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter X The Khond Rising in Kalahandi
126-138 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XI The Feudatory States of Chhattisgarh
139-149 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XII Christmas with Wild Elephants
150-163 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XIII With Tigers and Big Game
164-178 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XIV The Agricultural Community and Debt
179-192 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XV The Financing of Agriculturists
193-204 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XVI Local Inquiries
205-220 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XVII The Police
221-239 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XVIII Education
240-259 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XIX Christian Missions
260-276 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XX Indian Unrest: Its Causes
277-289 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XXI Indian Unrest: Its Limitations
290-301 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XXII Measures of Repression and Reform
302-311 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XXIII The “Partition of Bengal”
312-326 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XXIV The Ameer of Afghanistan
327-338 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XXV The Humours of Administration
339-353 Andrew Fraser view
Chapter XXVI The Last
354-363 Andrew Fraser view
Index
364-368 Andrew Fraser view

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