Statistical Papers Relating to IndiaCourt of Directors of the East-India Company, 1853 - 89 pagina's |
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acres Ahmednuggur Alwur Amount of Subsidy Annual Amount annum appeal Area Artillery assessment Bengal BENGAL-continued Berar Bombay British Government British officers Calcutta canal Caunta Cavalry cent Central India Malwa Chiefs Cis-Sutlej collectors commanded by British Connection with British contingent cost cotton Court cultivation Delhi district Ditto Ditto Ditto dominions duty East-India Company European export extended fixed Guicowar Guzerat Gwalior Hindoo Hindostanee horse Indore Infantry jaghires Joudpore Kotah land language Lower Provinces Madras manufacture ment military force Military Resources Myhee Nagpore native judge Nature of Connection Nizam's Nizamut North-West Provinces North-Western Provinces Oordoo opium Oude payment Peshawur petty Population Principal Sudder Aumeen proprietor Protected and tributary Provinces of Bengal Punjaub quantity Rajah rent road rupees per maund ryotwar salt Scindia sessions judge square miles Subsidiary alliance subsidiary force territory Total treaty treaty of 1818 tributary Ditto tributary to Scindia tribute troops vide
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Pagina 78 - Oriental works; his Lordship in Council directs that no portion of the funds shall hereafter be so employed. "4th. His Lordship in Council directs that all the funds which these reforms will leave at the disposal of the Committee be henceforth employed in imparting to the native population a knowledge of English literature and science, through the medium of the English language...
Pagina 77 - We find that the Government are establishing a Sanskrit school under Hindu Pundits to impart such knowledge as is already current in India. This seminary (similar in character to those which existed in Europe before the time of Lord Bacon) can only be expected to load the minds of youth with grammatical niceties and metaphysical distinctions of little or no practical use to the possessors or to society.
Pagina 43 - The duty and policy of the British government in India, therefore, require that the system of confiding the immediate exercise of every branch and department of the government to Europeans, educated in its own service, and subject to its own direct...
Pagina 68 - Nizam or ruler of Hyderabad, were placed nearly on an equality in point of facility of transport with the maritime cotton districts, then a breadth of land sufficient for the growth of a quantity equal to the full demand of Great Britain might at once be made available. It is, however, only by means of a railroad that the territory of Berar can be placed in a position to become a cotton-exporting country.
Pagina 58 - The duty on imported foreign salt was three rupees per maund, but it has been recommended by the home authorities that the import duty should (as in Bengal) be equal only to the difference between the selling price and the cost of manufacture ; the difference between the cost price and the price at which the salt is given out for consumption being the duty to be realized.
Pagina 57 - The average cost price of production§ is about 80 rupees per 100 maunds, or a trifle below one farthing per Ib., thus making the Government selling price under a penny per Ib. The supply of salt is no longer a monopoly; its manufacture and sale have not been relinquished by Government, but individuals participate in its provision, both by importation and manufacture, under a combined system of customs and excise.
Pagina 77 - I am told, of greater length, and more intricacy ; but the studies in which they spend most of their time, are the acquisition of the Sanscrit, and the endless refinements of its grammar, prosody, and poetry. Both have the same Natural Philosophy, which is also that of Aristotle in Zoology and Botany, and Ptolemy in Astronomy, for which the Hindoos have forsaken their more ancient notions of the seven seas, the six earths, and the flat base of Padalon, supported on the back of a tortoise. By the...
Pagina 78 - While, too, we agree with the committee that the higher branches of science may be more advantageously studied in the languages of Europe, than in translations into the Oriental tongues, it is also to be considered that the fittest persons for translating English scientific books, or for putting their substance into a shape adapted to Asiatic students, are natives who have studied profoundly in the original works.
Pagina 65 - The great inferiority of most of the Indian article is the result of what befalls it subsequent to its production in the fields ; that is, from the way in which it is gathered and stored, and chiefly the way in which it is separated from the seed and prepared for market, as well, also, as the manner of its transmission to market.
Pagina 47 - His power of punishment extends to two months' imprisonment, a period which, when he is intrusted with special powers by the Government, is enlarged to twelve months. As assistant in the revenue department, he decides petty claims relating to arrears or exactions of rent. After this apprenticeship of several years, the assistant is regarded as a candidate for promotion. He is then subjected to a further examination, with the view of testing his knowledge of the languages and the laws of the country...