Poverty of India: Papers and StatisticsW. Foulger, 1888 - 227 páginas |
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administration report agricultural Ahmedabad Ahmednuggur amount annas annual annum apothecary appointments assistant surgeon average price bad season Bajri beegahs Belgaum benefit Bengal Bombay British India British rule bullion calculated capital cent Central Provinces College commerce cotton cultivated D. I. Khan DADABHAI NAOROJI Danvers deduct districts drain East India Association England English estimate European examination Executive Engineer exports famine figures foreign garce give given Grant Duff Gurdaspur head income India Office industry irrigated Jhang Jowari labour Lahore loans Lord Maclean Maclean's Madras maund ment nation natives of India nearly necessary North-West Provinces opium Oudh Parliamentary Return passed Peshawur Poona population portion Poverty of India present produce per acre profits prosperity Punjab railway result rice rise rulers rupee Secretary seers Sialkot sub-assistant surgeons taken taxation tion Total Quantity total value trade Umballa uncovenanted United Kingdom wages wealth wheat whole ΙΟ
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Página 218 - We hold Ourselves bound to the Natives of Our Indian Territories by the same obligations of Duty which bind Us to all Our other Subjects ; and those Obligations, by the Blessing of Almighty God, We shall faithfully and conscientiously fulfil.
Página 218 - And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, ability, and integrity, duly to discharge.
Página 212 - No Native of the said Territories, nor any natural-born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said Company.
Página 84 - That no native of the said territories nor any natural born subject of His Majesty resi'dent therein, shall, by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour, or any of them, be disabled• from holding any place, office, or employment under the Company.
Página 82 - We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligations of duty which bind us to all our other subjects ; and those obligations, by the blessing of Almighty God, we shall faithfully and conscientiously fulfil.
Página 49 - What supports and employs productive labour, is the capital expended in setting it to work, and not the demand of purchasers for the produce of the labour when completed. Demand for commodities is not demand for labour. The demand for commodities determines in what particular branch of production the labour and capital shall be employed; it determines the direction of the labour; but not the more or less of the labour itself, or of the maintenance or payment of the labour. These depend on the amount...
Página 81 - It may be that the public mind of India may expand under our system till it has outgrown that system ; that by good government we may educate our subjects into a capacity for better government ; that, having become instructed in European knowledge, they may, in some future age, demand European institutions.
Página 192 - Industry is limited by capital." " To employ industry on the land is to apply capital to the land." " Industry cannot be employed to any greater extent than there is capital to invest.
Página 79 - ... is, however, one part of the Bill on which, after what has recently passed elsewhere, I feel myself irresistibly impelled to say a few words. I allude to that wise, that benevolent, that noble clause which enacts that no native of our Indian Empire shall, by reason of his colour, his descent, ro his religion, be incapable of holding office.
Página 81 - Are we to keep the people of India ignorant in order that we may keep them submissive ? Or do we think that we can give them knowledge without awakening ambition ? Or do we mean to awaken ambition and to provide it with no legitimate vent ? Who will answer any of these questions in the affirmative ? Yet one of them must be answered in the affirmative by every person who maintains that we ought permanently to exclude the Natives from high office. / have no fears. The path of duty is plain before us...