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36 RUSSIA AND INDIA IN 1903.
of officers and the inability of the commanding officer
to dismiss an inefficient member. If the Government
of India shows itself more in earnest in connection
with the Volunteer Force, it is quite certain that
private employers will follow their example. Indeed,
the London Board of the Kolar Gold Fields gives
already a capitation grant of £ 1 per man as a supple
ment to the Government grant. Those directors are
wise in their generation.
But, even as things are, it is satisfactory to have
it on the Inspector General's authority that—
“With the exception of a quite insignificant number,
the Mounted Volunteers, the Artillery, the Naval Volun
teers and Engineers, and the whole of the Railway
Corps, aggregating 15,800, are distinctly good, while
of the infantry some are very good, some capable of
much improvement, and only a small minority not
satisfactory ."—Army and Navy Gazette.
INDIAN PRINCES AND THE EMPIRE.
The Native States of India extend over a third of
the Empire. Their chiefs rule over seventy millions
of peoples. In the four great States of Baroda,
Hyderabad, Kashmir, and Mysore there is a British
Resident. The others are grouped into nine divisions,
in each of which is an Agent to the Governor-General,
with a representative in each State. But no ruling
chief is interfered with unnecessarily or in matters of
detail. The importance of a Chief and of a State is
signified to the outer world, by the number of guns,
fired as a salute on arrival in, or departure from, a
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. town or military station. There were
eighty chiefs at the Delhi Durbar A public or private audience held by a high-ranking British colonial representative (e.g. Viceroy, Governor-General, or member of the British royal family). entitled to artillery
salutes—five to twenty-one guns, six to nineteen, twelve
to seventeen, fifteen to fifteen, five to thirteen, and