Ine information and fill in the English administrative system at the box:
4 i. Diwani Adalat, Baujdari Adalat to investigate Crimes
ii. Superior position for Indian was given “Subedar"
iii. The Indian administrative service act was enacted
by the British Parliament in 1861.-
iv. Kotwals were appointed as the Police Officers who
administrated the towns.
Answers
Answer:
Dedicated
the memory of the men, known and unknown,
have built up the fabric of Indian Administration,
to that of the claruvi et venerabile nomen ,
of William Stevenson Meyer
Jfe who, after a life of distinguished service,
remembered India in his last will and testament
and bequeathed to the University of Madras,
the Endowment under which the lectures were delivered
of which this work
is the ripened harvest.
/
\f
viami 0
OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
1. The Making of the State
2. The Political Theory of the Government of India
3. The Political Philosophy of Mr. Gandhi
misTfff,
0116
Pages
Preface
I. Commercial Origins
II. The Army and the Administration
III. Land revenue as maker of the Administration 228
IV. The Hold of the Frontier .. 390
V. Thf, State made by the Administration .. 472
* VI. Social and Political Ideas forged by the
Administration .. 569
Epilogue .. 658
l2nob^JU
•C-H
t (■ -
MINIS
PREFACE
<SL
This work is the expanded and finished product of the
lectures delivered under the Sir William Meyer Endowment
at the University of Madras in November—December 1937.
The lectures have been allowed to grow out of the infantine
nudity in which they were first delivered into a large and
lusty size. Quotations from the dispatches, minutes, and letters
of the rulers of India have been used in the body of the book,
not merely referred to in footnotes, to give a realistic and
human touch to otherwise dull arid drab narrative of the
events and facts of administration. The actors in the great
drama of British rule in India, the players in ‘ the great
game ’ of Indian policy were, many of them, worthy of their
parts. And their sayings and writings deserve to be brought
out from the dim and dusty records, in which they are hidden,
into the daylight of historical narrative. Sayings, anecdotes,
short biographies of typical careers, though they have
lengthened out the work and may be deemed to impair the
dignity of history, have, the author hopes, made the
boSk interesting. And as the field of work represented here
was almost untrodden, there have been long winding paths,
unnecessary parallel tracks, cross-country running, and
repeated comings and goings. Readers, not used to Indian
administrative circumstances, may resent the detail of certain
descriptions and narratives. But it is time that outside
knowledge of Indian administration should go below the layer
represented by the District Collector. The time has come for
that knowledge to go down to the work of the Huzur Sherista-
dar and of the village Kamam. For, powerful as the Collector
still is, the administrative pressure of these subaltern officials
is more immediate and persistent.