India: Its Administration and Progress

the Bengal lient Law--Condition of the people in Behar—The Tenancy Acts—fiadastral Sqkveys—Lord Curzon's Government on &e results of the Permantut Settlement. Pages 441-473 WHAPrER XXIII THE ARMY IN INDIA The ultimatd° rasis of our dominion—Indian interests beyond the limits of India-oThe advance of Russia--- Defence of Norttrest Frontier-11:e Iffier tribes--Formation of the North [...] Instead'of one of the dampest and greenest countries of the earth we find in the early summer one of the brownest mid most arid a country scorched with winds alike the blast of a furnace !I but in thdbwinter it has the climate of an Italian4 INIYIA CHAP. [...] bad administration in India depends to a far greater extent on the government of the province than on tlii.distant authorities in Calcutta or London' The vast majority of the population is hardly conscious of the existence of the Viceroy aid his government. [...] powers by which they know that they are goer4rnipct 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 tolae part of the so-called Government of India is comparlivelysmell this central power adminiistertd by the GloArnou-General in fountil under the supreine Authority 0e-the Briti [...] But as regards the educated classes a common system of goverMent the spriad of trade"NOTES TOP CHAPTER) commerce commerce the increasing habit ofIravel and the diffusion of the English language have of late years dole much to breakdown the walls of sepfiration between different parts of Indit! An educated Indian is now at home in any of the lager dirs.