India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey.

  • John Strachey
Date:
1903
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    Ripon, Lord, equalisation of salt duties, 165 Risley, Mr., on conversions to Hinduism, 289-291 on origin of caste, 298, 299 Roads, former condition of, 212, 213 Rohilla war, false history of, 277-278 Rupees, value of, in English money, 115 note Russia, her advance towards India, 435- 437 Ryot, meaning of term, 334 note Ryots in Bengal: see Bengal Ryotwari tenure, 334 Salaries of Native officials, 84, 85 note Salisbury, Lord, on cotton duties, 175 on employment of Natives, 495 Salt, 160-167 duties on, importance of reducing, 165, 166 Sanitation, 369 Schools : see Education Science, neglect of, 269, 270, 273 Secretary of State for India : see Home Government his bills on India, 193-196 Seeley, Professor, quoted, 5 Senart, M., on caste in India, 299 note Settlements, temporary, 333-357 permanent, 414-433 Shah Jehan, canals made by, 217 Sherres, Mr., quoted, 188, 429 Sikhs, 313 consumption of opium by, 154 Silver, fluctuations in gold value and consequences, 115 note, 196-202 imports of, into India, 191, 192 Simla, the summer headquarters of Government of India, 62 Sind, irrigation in, 222 rainfall in, 28 Sleeman, General, on Oudh before an- nexation, 466-470 Son, river, canal from, 219 Staff Corps, Indian, 443 Stamp revenue, 167 Stephen, Sir James, his Nuncomar and Impey, 276 on Code of Criminal Procedure, 99 on James Mill, 276 on Native and British rule, 506 on Penal Code, 95, 96 on Permanent Settlement, 423 on police, 367 Strachey, General Sir Richard, on centralised system of finance, 113 President of Famine Commission, 225 scheme of, for borrowing for public works, 224 on the Himalaya, 32, 39 Strachey, General Sir Richard, on the Indo-Gangetic plain, 20 proposals for currency reform, 201, 202 on weights and measures, 203-208 Strachey, Sir John and Sir Richard, their Finances and Public Works of India quoted, 180, 207, 208 Sudder Nizamat and Diwani Adalat Courts, 97 Suez Canal, trade through, 186 Superstitions, illustrations of, 292-296 Supreme Courts, 97 Surveys, trigonometrical, topographical, and cadastral, 339 in Bengal, 419, 429, 430 Sutlej, canal from, 220 Syad, Sir Ahmad Khan, and the Aligarh College, 263-268 on Mohammedans and Hindus, 497-501 Tahsildars, their duties and importance, 363 Taj Mahal, 321 Talukdars, of Oudh, 348-351 Taxation, revenue derived from, 119- 121, 161-185 Native compared with English, 120 Tea, 182, 189, 190 Telegraph, 160 Tenants, classes of, 333, 337-339 Tenures of land, 333-337 Thomas, Mr. Edward, on revenues of Aurangzib, 128 Thomason, Mr. James, promotion of education, 245 on land revenue under Native Govern- ments, 126 improvement of revenue system by, 347 on the district officer, 361, 362 on the settlement officer, 341, 342 the construction of roads by, 214 Thornton, Mr. T. H., on income of Indian peasants, 382 Thugs, their extirpation, 399 Trade, foreign, 174-196 conditions under which carried on, 190-196 its great expansion, 1S6 free, in India, 174-185 Travancore, 459 Tribes, criminal, 399-402 wild, 285, 286 Tupper, Sir Charles, on Native States, 475 note Udaipur, 45, 458 United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 20, 30, 314-402 agriculture in, 324-331 agricultural department in, 352-354
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