The claims of the Governed on the Governing-How they have been discharged -England's Opportunities in India-Impediments to Domestic Improvement -Administrave Difficulties in England and India-Crime and Poverty in the two Countries-Encouragements to Exertion.
When Mr. Barlow, then Secretary to the Indian Government, drew up the elaborate minute, on which the Bengal Regulations of 1793 were based, Sir William Jones, to whom this important document was submitted, struck his pen across the three first words. The correction which he made was a significant one. Barlow had "written: " The two principal objects which the Government ought to have in view in all its arrangements, are to insure its political safety, and to render the possession of the country as advantageous as possible to the East India Company and the British Nation." Sir William Jones, I have said, erased the three first words. Instead of " the two principal objects," he wrote: "two of the primary objects;" and then h
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY REMARKS PAGE; The Claims of the Governed on the Governing-How they have been discharged-England's Opportunities in India-Impediments to Domestic Improvement-Administrative Difficulties in England and India-Crime and Poverty in the two Countries-Encouragements to Exertion 1; CHAPTER II; INDIA UNDER THE MOGULS; India under the Moguls-The Arab and Tartar Conquests-The House of Toghlak-Feroz Shah-The First Indian Canal-The House of Timour -The Emperor Akbar-His Internal Administration-Shah Jehan- Public Works-Decline of the Mogul Empire-Comparison of Mogul and British Rule-Their General Effects on the Happiness of the People 17; CHAPTER III PROGRESS OF ADMINISTRATION Our European Predecessors-The Portuguese in India-The Dutch-Discouragements at the Outset-Progress of Empire-Our First Administrative Efforts-The Conquest of Bengal-Efforts of Clive and Hastings- The Regulating Act-Cornwallis an
When Mr. Barlow, then Secretary to the Indian Government, drew up the elaborate minute, on which the Bengal Regulations of 1793 were based, Sir William Jones, to whom this important document was submitted, struck his pen across the three first words. The correction which he made was a significant one. Barlow had "written: " The two principal objects which the Government ought to have in view in all its arrangements, are to insure its political safety, and to render the possession of the country as advantageous as possible to the East India Company and the British Nation." Sir William Jones, I have said, erased the three first words. Instead of " the two principal objects," he wrote: "two of the primary objects;" and then h
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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY REMARKS PAGE; The Claims of the Governed on the Governing-How they have been discharged-England's Opportunities in India-Impediments to Domestic Improvement-Administrative Difficulties in England and India-Crime and Poverty in the two Countries-Encouragements to Exertion 1; CHAPTER II; INDIA UNDER THE MOGULS; India under the Moguls-The Arab and Tartar Conquests-The House of Toghlak-Feroz Shah-The First Indian Canal-The House of Timour -The Emperor Akbar-His Internal Administration-Shah Jehan- Public Works-Decline of the Mogul Empire-Comparison of Mogul and British Rule-Their General Effects on the Happiness of the People 17; CHAPTER III PROGRESS OF ADMINISTRATION Our European Predecessors-The Portuguese in India-The Dutch-Discouragements at the Outset-Progress of Empire-Our First Administrative Efforts-The Conquest of Bengal-Efforts of Clive and Hastings- The Regulating Act-Cornwallis an
