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Crime in India. A Brief Review of the more Important Offences included in the Annual Criminal Returns with Chapters on Prostitution and Miscellaneous Matters

1924

I have however drawn pointed attention wherever necessary to the effect upon crime of the deplorab4e political agitation of the last few years and have also laid stress in the final chapter on the gulf which lies between the aspirations of the Indian intellgentsia and the mental and moral outlook of the general body of the population. [...] Where sexual relations are involved tribal custom in many places demands the death of the guilty party and this fact partly accounts for the number of murders in 1921 49 in the Panjab and 210 in the Frontier Province which were directly traceable to blood-feuds..._ The general attitude of the Panjab public in these matters is illustratei by a case which occurred in the Hissar District three re [...] During the hot weather it is the common custom of residents in the central and crowded quarters of the city to sleep in the streets or in any available open space owing to the intense heat in the squalid houses and chals. [...] The house collapsed very soon afáer its ere;tion burying some of the inmates in the debris and the police \N.-ere able after a prolonged and very detailed inquiry to prove that the catastrophe was due to jerry-building of the most flagrant tyre' Considering the character of some of the private builings erected in India an occasional prosecution of this kind might be very salutary. [...] a other words the growth of.crime in Burma may be part of the price which the country has to pay for her rapid development.' The Commissioner of a large48 CRIME IN INDIA district ascribes the present state of crime in Burma to various causes such as (a) lack of parental discipline and the decay of moral and religious instruction (0 the psychology of the Burman (c) deterioration of moral infl
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Pages
175
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142573
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v S.M. Edwardes view
Chapter I Offences Against the State
1-17 unknown view
Chapter II Offences Against the Person
18-40 unknown view
Chapter III Offences Against Property
41-70 unknown view
Chapter IV Prostitution in India
71-98 unknown view
Chapter V Miscellanea
99-148 unknown view
Chapter VI Crime and Indian Aspirations
149-159 unknown view
Appendix
160-162 unknown view
Index
163-i unknown view

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