India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey.

  • John Strachey
Date:
1903
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Credit: India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    acting as Lieutenant - Governor of Bengal, and who possesses a knowledge and experience of the subject which few can equal, has been good enough to revise my account of that great province ; and Sir Antony Mac- Donnell has not been prevented by his present arduous duties from going through the proofs of the chapters which treat of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, the government of which, a short time ago, he was administering with conspicuous ability. My special thanks are also due to Mr. Morison, the accomplished Principal of the Mohammedan College at Aligarh; to Sir Charles Elliott ; to Sir Hugh Barnes, the Lieutenant-Governor of Burma; to my son, Major J. Strachey ; and to Mr. G. IP. M. Batten, who, in addition to much other assistance, has contributed to the book the most complete account which, in my opinion, has been written of all the facts connected with the opium revenue of India. Thus, if I may apply to such a subject as the improvement of this book the famous words of the poet, it has at least had the advantage of the help of “ the masters of those who know.” When a man has been for many years writing and speaking on matters to which his life has been mainly devoted, there must be much about which he can say nothing new. As Mr. John Morley has written in some- what similar circumstances, “ These borrowings from my former self the reader will perhaps be willing to excuse on the old Greek principle that a man may say a thing once as he would have it said—BU Be ov/c ivBe^Tat—he may not say it twice.” But it is not from myself alone that I have borrowed without acknowledgment in the present edition. In 1882 a book, now long out of print, was
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