India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey.

  • John Strachey
Date:
1903
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    THE FINANCES AND PUBLIC REVENUES Responsibility for financial control—Reforms after tbe mutinies of 1857 — Financial decentralisation—Existing system — Growth of the public revenues—Their present amount—Small proportion derived from taxation—The sources and amount of the public income. I have explained that the final responsibility for the control of the finances of India has been placed by Parliament on the Secretary of State in Council. He cannot divest himself of this duty, but the administration could not be carried on unless the authorities in India itself were invested with ample financial discretion. The Secretary of State has there- fore delegated to the Government of India large but strictly defined powers, under which it can sanction fresh expenditure and create new offices of minor im- portance. This is for ordinary times, but in cases of emergency, when reference to England would cause delay injurious to the public interests, there is practi- cally no limit to the financial powers which the Govern- ment of India exercises. In the time of the East India Company a properly organised system of financial administration hardly existed. After the mutinies of 1857 an immense in- crease of expenditure took place; their suppression and the restoration of order involved an addition of more in
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