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must necessarily be more centralised, more thorough in the supervision of every detail, more uniformly regulated, than the administration of the Middle Ages. If so, then this modern administration should necessarily contain within itself some popular element, and should be helped and sustained by popular bodies in divisions and districts. To make the present administration more centralised, and at the same time to exclude from it all popular element, is to preserve the despotism of the Middle Ages without the advantages of self-government which that despotism left to the people.

From whatever point we view this grave question, we arrive at the ultimate truth-a truth which Englishmen know better than any other nation on earth-that it is impossible to make Indian administration successful and the Indian people prosperous without admitting the people to a share in the control of their own affairs. "It is an inherent condition of human affairs," said John Stuart Mill," that no intention, however sincere, of protecting the interests of others, can make it safe or salutary to tie up their own hands. By their own hands only can any positive and durable improvement of their circumstances in life be worked out." Indian hands have been tied up too long, and the result has not been happy. Let Indians to-day stand side by side with British administrators, and work conjointly to help their country and improve their wretched lives.

England herself stands to gain and not to lose by a constitutional government in India. Isolation does not strengthen the empire, it is already creating discontent among a numerous population which will necessarily be an increasing source of political danger. A popular form of government will arrest this evil and will strengthen the empire; it will enlist the people of India in the cause of the empire; it will make them proud of the empire as their own. More than this, it will arrest the evils which a despotic form of government creates-in

England as much as in India. It will arrest that insidious influence with which England's eastern despotism infects and poisons her own institutions and her own people year after year.

It is said of Louis XI., King of France, that on one occasion he had decided to hang his soothsayer, but that he changed his mind on being told that the duration of his own life depended on that of the soothsayer. It is certainly true, in a far higher sense, that England's destiny hangs on the destiny of India. A prosperous India will help England's trade, and a constitutional India will strengthen England's Empire. Impoverished India starves England's trade, and a despotic form of government in India spells England's decline.

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Benares, 20, 33, 40, 41, 46, 100, 107,

154, 198, 279

Bengal, 33, 93–526, passim

British Indian Association, 186,

192

Journal, 205

Land Administration. 460-462
Land Reform, 263-264
Permanent Settlement, 33-35
Partition, 459

Rent Act, see Act
Bentinck, Lord George, 125

Lord William, 3, 4, 27, 30,
34, 88, 102, 103, 110, 133, 134,
188, 189, 201, 202, 207, 208, 212,
216, 241, 242, 245, 378, 395, 434,
439, 510

Berar, 29, 31, 291, 346, 553
Bernard, Sir Charles, 557
Bethune, Drinkwater, 192, 204
School, 204

Bhutan State, 246

Bhamo, 444

Bharat Pal, 26

Bird, Robert Merttins, 34-47, 54, 60,

65, 76, 152, 180, 268, 295, 296,
467

Blackett, Mr., M.P., 27

Blaine, Lieut., 167

Bokhara, 8

Bolan Pass, 423, 431

Bombay, 4, 25, 49, passim

Land Settlements, see Land

Native Association, 186

Bonnerjea, W. C., 445

Bose, Hon. B. K., 482, 483

Bourdillon, Mr., 71, 75

on Madras Ryot, 71-73
Bowden, Mr., 320

Brackenbury, Sir Henry: Evidence,
Expend. Com., 566-568, 576
Bradlaugh, Charles, M.P., 449
Briggs, Major-General, 133, 134
Bright, Dr. Frank, 224

John, M.P., 73, 129, 138,
139, 141, 143, 217, 219, 221,
346, 363, 364, 370

Bristol, Chamber of Commerce, 149
Broach, 132, 134

Brocklehurst, Mr., 99, 109-113, 119-

122

Brown, F. C., 135-138

Brussels, International Conference,
584

Bualapur, State of, 20
Buchanan, Dr. F., 111, 170

Buchanan, T. R., 557
Bullen, J. N., 337

Burdwan, Raja of, 396

Burma, 24, 31, 181-184, 231, 255,
256, 412, 442, 443, 526, 527, 539,

550
Burnes, Sir Alexander, 9, 430

CAINE, W. S., M.P., 557, 559
Calcutta, 10, 15, 104-606, passim
Journal, 206

Municipality, 457, 458
Review, 167

Cameron, Hay, 180, 187, 192, 201
Campbell, Capt. Walter, 70

Sir George, 73, 179, 364, 397
Canals, 167, 168, 169, 170, 365, 367,
368

Canara, 75, 318, 319, 495, 496
Canning, George, 244

Lord, x., xi., 13, 88-510,
passim

Administration, 239-244
Lady, 240, 241

Canora, Colonel, 21, 22
Cantley, Captain, 167
Canton, 100

Cape Comorin, 137

Cassels, Walter, 339

Castlereagh, Lord, 15

Cavagnari, Sir Louis, 423, 429, 431

Cay, Mr., 383

Cawnpur, 36, 41, 46, 240

Ceded Districts, the, 313

Central Provinces, 27, 49-610, passim

Administration, 472-488

Land Settlements, see Land
Settlement Code, 485
Tenancy Act, see Act

Cesses, local, on land, see Land
Ceylon, 560

Chamberlain, Sir Neville, 429

Chand, Hon. Nihal (Notes on Revenue

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Famine, 369, 492
Madras Land, 74-76
Public Service, 577

Commons, House
passim

of, 27, 34-598,

Select Committees, 34, 35, 53,
59, 61, 78, 79, 99-123, 125-142,
143, 144, 145, 150, 152, 153, 173,
177, 179-209, 311, 329, 337, 339,
340, 342, 353, 360, 365-370,
376-389, 432, 467, 491, 497,
555

Condemned Unheard (Digby), 447,
448

Congress, National Indian, 445
Control, Board of, 4, 5, 10, 100, 180-
185, 207, 210, 226, 229, 231,
245, 265

Cope, Thomas, 119, 120
Cornwallis, Lord, 38, 89, 190, 198,

205, 263, 280, 391, 396, 509
Cotton, Sir Arthur, 71, 137, 171,
172, 360-370, 382, 432, 545,
546, 550

Life of (Lady Hope), 172, 173,
363

Sir Henry, 480, 522
Cooper's Hill College, 355
Courtney, Leonard, 557
Courts, High, 243

Cox, R. W., 33

Cranborne, Lord, see Salisbury
Cranbrook, Lord, 432, 579

Crawford, Robert, 132

Cromer, Lord (Sir Evelyn Baring),
258, 537, 538, 557, 603
Evidence, Expend. Com., 560-
561
Cross, Lord, 449

Currie, Sir Frederick, 18, 19, 26,
225, 393

Currency Committee (1898), 358,
578-591

Curzon, Lord, 456, 457, 464, 465,
482, 522, 535, 557, 597, 598,
603

Land Resolutions, 503-516

DACCA, 105, 112, 114

Dalhousie, Lord, 12, 14, 18, 19, 32,
82-90, 146, 168, 169, 175, 212,
213, 218, 220, 223, 244, 264, 268,
269, 291, 297, 310, 391, 400, 435,
597

Danvers, Sir Juland, 75, 176, 353
Dargai, 455

Datta, Madhu Sudan, 242

Davidson, Capt., 61

Davies, Mr., 132

Deb, Radha Kant, 201

Debt, Indian, xv., 210-221, 371-387,
555

Deccan, 25, 50, 52, 55, 58, 170, 329,

609

Relief Act, 333, 335
Decentralisation Scheme, 257, 399,

515

Delhi, v., 33, 36, 41, 46, 90, 167, 177,

199, 200, 223, 273, 345, 424, 426,
427, 459, 605, 606, 609, 615
Denison, Sir Wm., 310
Derby, Lord, see Stanley
Dhalip Singh, 17, 19, 20, 21
Dickinson, John, 27

Digby, Wm., C.I.E., 447, 448, 609
Disraeli, Benj. (Lord Beaconsfield),

227, 228, 229, 239, 247, 252, 406,
410, 420, 424, 425, 428, 431, 442
Directors, Court of, 3, 4, 5-489,
passim

Secret Committee, 7, 8, 17, 229,
266

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