...the late Sir William Hunter said in 1879 from his place in the Viceroy's Council is true to this day that "the Government assessment does not leave enough...support himself and his family throughout the year." In the present year of distress and famine in Western India, ' Lord Curzon has declared that "the weakness...

...late Sir William Hunter said in 1879 from his place in the Viceroy's Council is' true' to . this day that "the Government assessment does not leave enough...support himself and his family throughout the year." In the present year of distress and famine in Westerti India, Lord Curzon has declared that "the weakness...

...Hunter, the distinguished Indian historian, when a member of the Viceroy's Council in 1879, declared that "the Government assessment does not leave enough...support himself and his family throughout the year." The need of this taxation began eighteen years ago, in 1885, by an increase in the strength of the...

...William Hunter said, openly and strongly from his place in the Governor-General's Council in 1879 : " The fundamental difficulty of bringing relief to the...support himself and his family throughout the year." The only rule which limited the discretion of the Settlement Officer was that he should not enhance...

...William Hunter said, openly and strongly from his place in the Governor-General's Council in 1879 : " The fundamental difficulty of bringing relief to the...support himself and his family throughout the year." The only rule which limited the discretion of the Settlement Officer was that he should not enhance...

...called " Rack Taxing in Rural India," in which he gave a sensational quotation from Hunter to the effect that the " Government assessment does not leave enough...support himself and his family throughout the year." If Hunter had said this it would not have much mattered, for probably there has never been an Indian...

...pushed to the front by every real friend of good government CHAPTER X RACK-TAXING IN RURAL INDIA • The Government assessment does not leave enough food...support himself and his family throughout the year." — SIR WILLIAM HUNTER, KCSI, the Historian of India, in the Viceroy's Council, 1883.^ ''There is no...

...bleeding of Indian people? If not, where is the remedy? In resisting it. Says Sir William Hunter : "The government assessment does not leave enough food...support himself and his family throughout the year." ."There is no more pathetic figure in the British Empire than the Indian peasant," writes Mr. Herbert...

...26,000,000 " Twentieth Century Magazine historian of India, formerly of the Viceroy's Council, says : "The government assessment does not leave enough food...support himself and his family throughout the year." Mr. Herbert Compton, in Indian Life, has this to say : "There is no more pathetic figure in the British...

...' and Sir W. Hunter contended, have been some cases in which " the assessment was so high as not to leave enough food to the cultivator to support himself and his family throughout the year." (c) But the actual percentage of taxation has steadily sunk, and has probably never since 1855 been...