The Bankruptcy of India: An Enquiry Into the Administration of India Under the Crown. Including a Chapter on the Silver QuestionS. Sonnenschein, Lowerey & Company, 1886 - 215페이지 |
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administration agricultural agriculturists already amount Anglo-Indian army average Bengal Bombay borrowing British British India bullion bullocks calculations capital cattle cent classes cost crops cultivation currency dangerous debt Deccan districts drain of produce Drought East India economical effect England English Englishmen European expenditure export and import fact famine favourable figures Finance Minister foreign gold Government grain gross Guzerat home charges Hyderabad impoverishment improve increased interest irrigation John Morley Kathiawar labour land revenue less Lord Lord Cornwallis Lord Dalhousie Lord Salisbury Madras Mahratta matter ment millions Morley Mysore nearly North-West Provinces official opium Oudh paid period poorer population poverty present profit prosperity Punjab railways remitted rent rupee ryots scarcity seers serious silver Sir Erskine Perry Sir James Caird Sir John Strachey soil starvation surplus taken taxation terrible tion trade truth twenty village whilst whole William Sleeman
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11 페이지 - In times of trouble they arm and fortify themselves : a hostile army passes through the country : the village communities collect their cattle within their walls, and let the enemy pass unprovoked. If plunder and devastation be directed against themselves, and the force employed be irresistible, they flee to friendly villages at a distance, but when the storm has passed over, they return and resume their occupations.
12 페이지 - They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down; revolution succeeds revolution; but the village community remains the same. This union of the village communities, each one forming a separate little state in itself, has, I conceive contributed more than any other cause to the preservation of the...
12 페이지 - This union of the village communities, each one forming a separate little state in itself, has, I conceive, contributed more than any other cause to the preservation of the people of India, through all the revolutions and changes which they have suffered, and is in a high degree conducive to their happiness and to the enjoyment of a great portion of freedom and independence.
173 페이지 - There is no great harm in saying that the land belongs to ' the State ' when the State is only another name for the people, but it is very different when the State is represented by a small minority of foreigners, who disburse nearly one-third of the revenues received from the land on the remuneration of their own servants, and who have no abidingplace on the soil and no stake in the fortunes of the country.
11 페이지 - The sons will take the places of their fathers ; the same site for the village, the same position for the houses, the same lands will be reoccupied by the descendants of those who were driven out when the village was depopulated ; and it is not a trifling matter that will drive them out, for they will often maintain their post through times of disturbance and convulsion, and acquire strength sufficient to resist pillage and oppression with success.
27 페이지 - I am persuaded that, if it were to be put to the vote among the people of Oude, ninety-nine in a hundred would rather remain as they are, without any feeling of security in life or property, than have our system introduced in its present complicated state...
172 페이지 - Two-fifths of the people of British India enjoy a prosperity unknown under native rule ; other two-fifths earn a fair but diminishing subsistence ; but the remaining fifth, or forty millions, go through life on insufficient food.
171 페이지 - Punjab. a tenth of that number, it is only by immense pressure on other parts of India, and at a quadrupled price, that the barest sufficiency of supplies can be obtained. This seems a clear proof that the alleged surplus must be greatly overestimated.
163 페이지 - In ten years, at the present rate of growth, there will be twenty million more people to feed ; in twenty years upwards of forty millions. This must be met by an increase of produce, arising from better management of the cultivated area, and enlargement of its extent by migration to unpeopled districts, and by emigration to other countries. We are dealing with a country already full of people, whose habits and religion promote increase without restraint, and whose law directs the sub-division of...
162 페이지 - The available good land in India is nearly all occupied. There are extensive areas of good waste land, covered with jungle, in various parts of the country, which might be reclaimed and rendered suitable for cultivation, but for that object capital must be employed, and the people have little to spare. The produce of the country on an average of years is barely sufficient to maintain the present population and make a saving for occasional famine. The greatest export of rice and corn in one year is...