Speeches and Papers on Indian Questions  1901 and 1902

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Speeches and Papers on Indian Questions 1901 and 1902

1902

The Government claim of one-half the net produce of the soil after deducting the cost of cultivation is enforced on the basis of estimates which can never be accurate The Government rule of fixing one-third the gross produce of the soil as the maximum of the tevenudemand is oppressive and harsh. [...] The rule of the East India Company came to an end after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and a great famine swept over Northern India in the early years of the aministration of the Crown. [...] The generation of Canning and Lawrence of Sir Charles Wood and Sir Stafford Northcote passed away and after a period of uninterrupted peace in India the succeeding generation of statesmen no longer thought it necessary to sacrifice a prospective rise in the land revenue to promote the welfare and contentment of the people or to connect the interests of the proprietors of the soil with the stabi [...] But that generation passed away a less sympathetic school of statesmen were bent on eternally increasing the revenue derived from the soil ; and the benevolent proposal of limiting the land-tax for the good of the people of India Was finally rejected by the India Office in 1883—over twenty years after the death of Lord Canning. [...] Sweep away the present policy of distrust and exclusion concede to the people of India some control over their own laws and adminitration make them cosharers in the management of their finances —and they wilt be jointly responsible with you Englishman in the eyes of the world for the prevention of famines and for the prosperity of the Empire.
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Pages
211
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142113
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi Ramesh Dutta view
The Indian Land Question
1-18 unknown view
India and The National Liberal Federation
19-23 unknown view
Social Progress in India
24-26 unknown view
The Land Tax Railways and Irrigation
27-33 unknown view
Restrictions on Land Alienation
34-36 unknown view
The Economic Causes of Indian Famines
37-50 unknown view
Famines and the Famines Commision of 1900
51-68 unknown view
The Economic Condition of India
69-88 unknown view
Indian Agriculture
89-105 unknown view
Indian Manufactures
106-128 unknown view
Bombay Land Revenue Anendment Act
129-149 unknown view
Enquiry into the Economic Condition of India
150-156 unknown view
Speech at Madras
157-164 unknown view
First Reply to lord Curzon’s Land Resolution
165-175 unknown view
Second Reply to Lord Curzon’s Land Resolution
176-190 unknown view
Third Reply to lord Curzon’s land Resolution
191-200 unknown view
Fourth Reply to Lord Curzon’s land Resolution
201-203 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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