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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) July 1945

1945

" The tendency of a council is rather to retard than to facilitate the transaction of business and to relieve the head of the local Government from the responsibility which he ought to assume in performing the ordinary duties of administration." IS The reasons given above are the familiar arguments of those who believe in autocratic government untrammelled by the restraints caused by the necessi [...] The Secretary of State and the Council of India supplanted and took over the powers and duties of the Directors and the Court of Proprietors of the Company and the Board of Control. [...] 106) which effected the transference of the governance of Indian territories from the Company to the Crown at the same time set the seal of approval on the system cf recruitment tentatively adopted by the Act of 1853 with this difference only that the newly-created Secretary of State for India in Council was to take the place of the Board of control as the authority to frame the rules governing t [...] It was long before the need for some educational test forced itself upon the attention of patrons and attention was directed to the crying problem of the reform of the civil services.s An enquiry was instituted into the state of the establishment of the Treasury and into the arrangements and regulations for the distribution and conduct of business with a view to suggesting reform. [...] Such an education has been proved by experience to be the best preparation for every calling which. requires the exercise of the higher powers of the mind Indeed in the case of the civil servant of the Company a good general education is even more desirable than in the case of the English professional man In fixing the subjects of examination the Committee were guided by the following considera
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Pages
94
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii unknown view
An Episode of the Bengal Administration (1867-1868)
1-6 Dharam Pal view
The Peace that Comes
6-9 M. Balasubramaniam view
The Civil Service of India at the beginning of the Crown’s Rule
9-17 A.K. Ghosal view
Byron and Don Juan
17-23 D.K. Sen view
Fisheries in India
24-28 H.K. Mookerjee view
Round the World
28-29 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
29-32 unknown view
Ourselves
32-32 unknown view
Obituary
33-33 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta
33-40 unknown view
Convocation Address
1-35 unknown view

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