The Cambridge History of the British Empire: The old Empire, from the beginnings to 1783John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell CUP Archive, 1929 - Great Britain |
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Contents
ADMINISTRATIVE DEVELOPMENT 18181858 | 1 |
The law member | 7 |
Recall of the governorgeneral | 13 |
Competitive examinations | 19 |
Police organisation | 28 |
Dacoity | 34 |
DISTRICTADMINISTRATION IN MADRAS 18181857 | 38 |
Courts of law | 44 |
The famine of 18967 | 307 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 314 |
Currency and the fall in silver | 320 |
Revenues 191314 | 327 |
War finance | 333 |
The dispatch of 1854 118 | 337 |
General position in 18656 | 339 |
Female education | 345 |
tenures | 51 |
Civil surgeons | 57 |
Taxation | 63 |
Police system | 69 |
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IN THE UNITED | 75 |
The landrevenue settlement | 81 |
The nonregulation system | 87 |
John Lawrences administration | 93 |
PAGE | 97 |
David Hare | 99 |
Ram Mohan Roys petition | 105 |
Macaulays minute m | 111 |
Policy of religious toleration | 122 |
Sacrifice of children at Sagar Island | 128 |
Careys description | 134 |
Ram Mohan Roys petition | 140 |
Growth of the Marine 174072 | 147 |
CHAPTER IX | 153 |
The reorganisation of 1796 | 159 |
Local and irregular units | 165 |
Dalhousies annexations | 171 |
Mutiny at Delhi | 177 |
Wheeler at Cawnpore | 183 |
Outram joins Havelock | 189 |
Kashmir | 191 |
The storm of Delhi | 195 |
Lawrence at Lucknow | 198 |
Mutiny in Central India | 201 |
Parliamentary bills | 207 |
The Amendment Act of 1869 | 214 |
The Mesopotamia Commission | 220 |
CHAPTER XII | 226 |
Subsequent changes in the governorgenerals council | 230 |
Slowness of progress 117 | 232 |
The home governments control of legislation | 237 |
CHAPTER XIII | 245 |
Tenancy legislation | 251 |
Landrevenue in Sind | 257 |
Port trusts | 263 |
Moplah rebellions | 268 |
Communications in the province | 274 |
Landrevenue administration | 280 |
Forests | 286 |
The district officer | 292 |
The Orissa famine | 298 |
The famine of 18768 | 300 |
Curzons reforms | 351 |
CHAPTER XX | 357 |
The finance department | 363 |
Exchange compensation allowances | 371 |
CHAPTER XXI | 379 |
The Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure Codes | 385 |
The Hindu joint family | 392 |
Transference of the Companys armies | 395 |
The Imperial Service Troops | 401 |
Russian expansion | 407 |
Salisburys policy | 414 |
The reoccupation of Kabul | 420 |
The RussoAfghan Boundary Commission | 423 |
The AngloRussian Entente | 429 |
Thibaws accession | 435 |
The government of Lower Burma | 441 |
Ripons settlement 421 | 447 |
Reforms 18728 | 453 |
Policy of the Second Afghan War 422 | 454 |
The administrative and Durand lines | 458 |
Tribal risings of 1897 | 466 |
Land tenures | 472 |
Failure to take advantage of the initial enthusiasm | 478 |
Revolutionary attempts | 485 |
Their constructive interpretation | 491 |
Successions in the Indian states | 497 |
Common economic interests | 503 |
Mintos change of policy | 509 |
Famine relief | 515 |
Comparative failure of the rural boards | 521 |
Reform in Madras | 528 |
Ripon s reforms in the municipalities | 534 |
CHAPTER XXIX | 538 |
The Act of 1892 | 545 |
Unrest in the Panjab | 553 |
Hindu character of the extremist movement | 559 |
Morleys criticisms | 565 |
Budget procedure | 572 |
Further restrictions on the press | 574 |
Indians in South Africa | 581 |
CHAPTER XXXIII | 587 |
The heads of provinces scheme | 594 |
Communal representation | 600 |
Chronological Table | 635 |
The Bihar famine 300 | 636 |
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Common terms and phrases
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