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Indian Speeches and Addresses

1903

career was reached on the 26th June 1902 when he was promoted to the dinity of a Knight Commandership of the Order of the Star of India and received the honour of knighthood at the hands of King Edward himself at Buckingham Palace. [...] The Cotton College at Gauhati and the Berry-White Medical school at Di brugarh attest his zeal in the cause of education : and the startling decrease of the mortality among the prisopopulation from 59 tc 2 2 per mille in the course of six years speaks convincingly of his humane efforts to improve the jail administration of the province. [...] Of the 442 witnesses examied by the Commissioners almost all assumed the Covnanted Civil Service as the sine qua non of the Indian"[ xii 1 polity and the schemes propounded by them had all more or less reference to the remodelling and recruiting of the Service as necessitated by the altered conditions of the time. [...] To maitain English supremacy in India intact and at the same time to shape into another mould the favoured monopoly of the Civil Service to utilize all that is wisest and most effective in English guidance and yet to develop native powers of government to reduce the cost of adminitration to promote sympathy between rulers and ruled to bring justice to the doors of the poor to kill the [...] It was sorrowfully realized that in the ordinary course of events Sir Henry would not return to India at the expiry of the leave granted to him as he was due to retire in the following October under the operation of the thirty-five years' rule : and all sections of the Indian community came forward to place upon record their appre ciation of his services and their regret at the termination of his
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Pages
159
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145788
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Cover
i-ii Henry Cotton view
Frontmatter
i-xxi Henry Cotton view
Address at the Annual Prize-Giving at the Oriental Seminary Calcutta 14th December 1885
1-5 Henry Cotton view
Address at the Annual Prize-Giving at the Ripon College Calcutta 13th March 1886
6-10 Henry Cotton view
Address at the Annual Prize-Giving at the Oriental Seminary Calcutta January 1889
11-14 Henry Cotton view
Address at the Annual Prize-Giving at the Oriental Seminary Calcutta 1st February 1891
15-19 Henry Cotton view
Address at the Annual Prize-Giving at the Oriental Seminary Calcutta 4th February 1894
20-24 Henry Cotton view
Speech at the Unveiling of the Bust of the Late Sir Henry Harrison
25-32 Henry Cotton view
Speech at the Town Hall Calcutta at a Public Meeting in Commemoration of the Late Nawab Bahadoor Abdul Latif C. I. E. on the 11th August 1893
33-35 Henry Cotton view
Speech at a Civil Service Dinner Given by the Hon’ble Sir Charles Elliott K.C.S.I. Lieutenant-Governor of BengaL at the Shrubbery Darjiling 6th October 1894
36-41 Henry Cotton view
Speech at Dibrugarh in Response to an Address of Welcome December 1896
42-46 Henry Cotton view
Speech at the Assam Dinner Held at the Trocadero Restaurant in London June 28th 1900
47-57 Henry Cotton view
Speech on the Assam Labour and Emigration Bill in the Council of the Governor-General of India Assembled for the Purpose of Making Laws and Regulations 8th March 1901
58-106 Henry Cotton view
Speech at a Farewell Dinner Given by the Residents of Shillong April 28th 1902
107-118 Henry Cotton view
Speech in Reply to the Farewell Adress Presented on Behalf of the People of Assam at Gauhati May 1st 1902
119-131 Henry Cotton view
Speech in Reply to the Farewell Address Presented on Behalf of the People of Bengal at the Town Hall Calcutta 6th May 1902
132-136 Henry Cotton view

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