The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 181A. Constable, 1895 |
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... provinces , of the administrative machinery , and of the constitution of the Indian Empire as it has been gradually built up by parlia- mentary statutes , by public ordinances , and by the operation of the Indian legislature . In like ...
... provinces , of the administrative machinery , and of the constitution of the Indian Empire as it has been gradually built up by parlia- mentary statutes , by public ordinances , and by the operation of the Indian legislature . In like ...
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... provinces furthest from the capital , and will thus throw into confusion precisely those countries which border upon our Indian possessions , and also lie within the reach of France and Russia . Such a state of affairs would in all ...
... provinces furthest from the capital , and will thus throw into confusion precisely those countries which border upon our Indian possessions , and also lie within the reach of France and Russia . Such a state of affairs would in all ...
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... provinces . Although we annexed Sinde in 1843 and the Punjab in 1849 , our jurisdiction stopped at the foot of the Affghan and the Baluch hills ; while beyond Kashmir , which acknowledged our suzerainty , the tribes and petty ruler ...
... provinces . Although we annexed Sinde in 1843 and the Punjab in 1849 , our jurisdiction stopped at the foot of the Affghan and the Baluch hills ; while beyond Kashmir , which acknowledged our suzerainty , the tribes and petty ruler ...
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... provinces of the agricultural classes . No one , in short , who knows or has studied Indian affairs could deny that this administrative record is a very good one , could doubt that the health and wealth , the morals and the knowledge ...
... provinces of the agricultural classes . No one , in short , who knows or has studied Indian affairs could deny that this administrative record is a very good one , could doubt that the health and wealth , the morals and the knowledge ...
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... provinces near Benares and Patna . Lord Lansdowne , who suppressed these disturbances vigo- rously , took a subsequent occasion of laying down in plain terms the British policy of strict neutrality and toleration towards religions ...
... provinces near Benares and Patna . Lord Lansdowne , who suppressed these disturbances vigo- rously , took a subsequent occasion of laying down in plain terms the British policy of strict neutrality and toleration towards religions ...
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