Modern India (Classic Reprint)
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Author(s)Sir J. D. Rees
PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN / ASIN1440047987
ISBN-139781440047985
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MODERN INDIA
CHAPTER I
physical aspects-population-religion- languages-ethnology-caste
The Indian Empire extends from the Himalayan region of perpetual snow to the burning jungles of Malabar, from the sandy wastes of Baluchistan to the tropical regions of Lower Burma, and beyond to the hills on the Chinese frontier.
In the north, the magnificent range of the Himalayas, of a width from the centre to the plains of the Ganges of 100 miles, and rising in height to 29,000 feet, in the centre, the Vindhyas, and along, either coast-line, the Eastern and Western onauts, are the most conspicuous mountains, and neither north, south, east, nor west lacks a great river which carries to the sea the abundant rainfall of the moiflsoons.
Invaders from Central Asia reaching the Indus, which they regarded as a sea, called the country beyond that of the Hindus or Sindus. Hence
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PACK; Note ix; Preface xiii; CHAP; I Physical Aspects - Population - Religion-; Languages-Ethnology-Caste i; II Wild Life 20; III Game Preservation and Forest Reservation 36; IV Foundation of British Government 47; V Economics-Trade-Taxation-Emigration -; Industries 60; VI Army-Anglo-Russian Convention 85 VII Administration - Decentralisation - Local; Boards-Revenue no; VIII The Civil Service-Employment of Indians 127; IX Education 144; X Present Political Conditions-Sedition-Partition - Svadeshi - Svaraj - Boycott -; Press 156; ' XL Reforms-Indian Councils Act; XII Social Life in India-Caste-Religion ; XIII Native States - Imperial Service Troops-; British Residents ; XIV Progress of the Last Fifty Years INDEX; 177 196; 214 228; 25*
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Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such a
CHAPTER I
physical aspects-population-religion- languages-ethnology-caste
The Indian Empire extends from the Himalayan region of perpetual snow to the burning jungles of Malabar, from the sandy wastes of Baluchistan to the tropical regions of Lower Burma, and beyond to the hills on the Chinese frontier.
In the north, the magnificent range of the Himalayas, of a width from the centre to the plains of the Ganges of 100 miles, and rising in height to 29,000 feet, in the centre, the Vindhyas, and along, either coast-line, the Eastern and Western onauts, are the most conspicuous mountains, and neither north, south, east, nor west lacks a great river which carries to the sea the abundant rainfall of the moiflsoons.
Invaders from Central Asia reaching the Indus, which they regarded as a sea, called the country beyond that of the Hindus or Sindus. Hence
• - a
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PACK; Note ix; Preface xiii; CHAP; I Physical Aspects - Population - Religion-; Languages-Ethnology-Caste i; II Wild Life 20; III Game Preservation and Forest Reservation 36; IV Foundation of British Government 47; V Economics-Trade-Taxation-Emigration -; Industries 60; VI Army-Anglo-Russian Convention 85 VII Administration - Decentralisation - Local; Boards-Revenue no; VIII The Civil Service-Employment of Indians 127; IX Education 144; X Present Political Conditions-Sedition-Partition - Svadeshi - Svaraj - Boycott -; Press 156; ' XL Reforms-Indian Councils Act; XII Social Life in India-Caste-Religion ; XIII Native States - Imperial Service Troops-; British Residents ; XIV Progress of the Last Fifty Years INDEX; 177 196; 214 228; 25*
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such a
