Discontent and Danger in IndiaC. Kegan Paul & Company, 1880 - 138페이지 |
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... population of strangers . The fat babies of the bureaucratic nursery are thrust on their ill - fed foster - parents , who find to their cost that they have harboured wolves which tear and rend their bosoms . They naturally begin to sigh ...
... population of strangers . The fat babies of the bureaucratic nursery are thrust on their ill - fed foster - parents , who find to their cost that they have harboured wolves which tear and rend their bosoms . They naturally begin to sigh ...
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... population of India is agricultural , and as a sum of about £ 21,000,000 * is raised directly from the land , it is obvious that the land - revenue system is the most important feature of British administration ; yet it is the economic ...
... population of India is agricultural , and as a sum of about £ 21,000,000 * is raised directly from the land , it is obvious that the land - revenue system is the most important feature of British administration ; yet it is the economic ...
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... population in parts of Oudh and North - Western Provinces , it is quite possible to exact a rack - rent from such tenants . The only check on the landowner is the force of custom or the fear that they will bolt . If he does not raise ...
... population in parts of Oudh and North - Western Provinces , it is quite possible to exact a rack - rent from such tenants . The only check on the landowner is the force of custom or the fear that they will bolt . If he does not raise ...
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... population of Oudh , and the large number of sub - proprietors , who absorb part of the rent , necessarily increase the pressure of what would otherwise be a light assessment . In the Punjab , where the population is less dense , and ...
... population of Oudh , and the large number of sub - proprietors , who absorb part of the rent , necessarily increase the pressure of what would otherwise be a light assessment . In the Punjab , where the population is less dense , and ...
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... population . After a season of scarcity he soon collapses . I have heard of well - disposed land- owners supporting him in bad times . They might perhaps do more in this direction if revenue were suspended . In the best of times high ...
... population . After a season of scarcity he soon collapses . I have heard of well - disposed land- owners supporting him in bad times . They might perhaps do more in this direction if revenue were suspended . In the best of times high ...
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administration agricultural Anglo-Indian APPENDIX XII assessment Bengal Bombay British rule canals cause cent Central Provinces cesses civil courts Civil Procedure Code classes cotton duties Council crops cultivator customs duties debt Deccan Ryots Relief direct taxation discontent district officers doubt England English fact famine Famine Commissioners force grain Hindoo Hume ideas imposed income-tax increase Indian Government interest irrigation J. S. Mill Jhansi Jhansi district lakhs land revenue land-tax landlords landowners large number latter Legislative less license-tax Lord Cranbrook Lord Lytton Lord Mayo Lord Northbrook Lord Salisbury Madras ment millions Mysore native rule natives of India North-West Provinces North-Western Provinces Northern India opinion owing peasantry political population present proprietor proved Provinces and Oudh Punjab railways reforms regards rent result revenue system rupees Ryots Relief Bill settlement officers social soil spite State's demand Strachey surplus taxes tenants tion village Whitley Stokes whole
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91 페이지 - All service ranks the same with God : If now, as formerly he trod Paradise, his presence fills Our earth, each only as God wills Can work — God's puppets, best and worst. Are we : there is no last nor first. Say not " a small event ! " Why " small " ? Costs it more pain that this, ye call A
50 페이지 - If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of rapacity or tyranny, there was time enough, even in the short life of man, to bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power upon the power itself.
60 페이지 - Nicht, was lebendig kraftvoll sich verkündigt, Ist das gefährlich Furchtbare. Das ganz Gemeine ist's, das ewig Gestrige, Was immer war und immer wiederkehrt Und morgen gilt, weil's heute hat gegolten! Denn aus Gemeinem ist der Mensch gemacht, Und die Gewohnheit nennt er seine Amme.
122 페이지 - A main cause of the disastrous consequences of Indian famines, and one of the greatest difficulties in the way of providing relief in an effectual shape, is to be found in the fact that the great mass of the population directly depends on agriculture, and that there is no other industry from which any considerable part of the community derives its support.
8 페이지 - The government of a people by itself has a meaning and a reality, but such a thing as government of one people by another does not and can not exist.
122 페이지 - India these considerations are of the greatest weight, and they are rendered still more serious by the fact that the numbers who have no other employment than agriculture, are in large parts of the country greatly in excess of what is really required for the thorough cultivation of the land.
39 페이지 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
50 페이지 - If hoards were made by violence, and tyranny, they were still domestic hoards ; and domestic profusion, or the rapine of a more powerful and prodigal hand, restored them to the people. With many disorders, and with few political checks upon power, nature had still fair play ; the sources of acquisition were not dried up, and therefore the trade, the manufactures, and the commerce of the country flourished.
87 페이지 - Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions ; any bungler can add to the old. But is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them...
122 페이지 - ... at prices within their reach, but also of the sole employment by which they can earn the means of procuring it. The complete remedy for this condition of things will be found only in the development of industries other than agriculture and independent of the fluctuations of the seasons.