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'Russia and India in 1903' [26v] (54/68)
The record is made up of 1 volume (31 folios). It was created in 1903. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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RUSSIA AND INDIA IN 1903.
own words : “ It has been the constant duty of the
Government of India to balance the Imperial and
the Indian aspects of our obligations. If we have, n
and I myself interpolate the words £< if we can,” “be
helpful to the Empire without detriment to the true
interest of the country, then I am sure there is no one
who will not be willing to endorse, and to share our
responsibility.’'
Countervailing Duties on Sugar.
Indeed, a great commercial service was rendered by
the Government of India three years ago by the policy
of combating by countervailing duties the inequitable
system of sugar bounties. Not only has this policy
brought to the revenues of India not much short of a
crore
Equivalent to ten million, or one hundred lakhs. Used especially in connection with money (rupees).
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
, levied from the foreigner—37!-
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
last year, and 24
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
this, says the able Financial
Secretary, Sir Edward Law, who is always so ready to
listen to the views of the Commercial Community.
Lord Curzon is quite right when he says that this
policy has not been without its effect upon public
opinion elsewhere, and played its part in contributing
to the practical abolition of these bounties after a
quarter of a century of fruitless diplomatic negotiation.
The ruined West Indies in the Carribean Sea owe a
great debt of gratitude to the East Indies for the only
practical help afforded them in their distress. The
recent action also as to the Burmese oil wells shows,
too, how determined the Viceroy is not to suffer British
natural products and British trade to be placed, if he
can help it, under the heel of the foreigner. Lord
Curzon will pass soon from the chair of Warren
Hastings and other great administrators, but unlike
them he will move to even higher offices in the
Imperial Government. And as here he has shown rare
genius, so in the future he will still have opportunity
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A short book on Russia and India by the Conservative Member of Parliament, Sir Charles Edward Howard Vincent. The volume includes sections on the Russian Army, the Indian Frontier Question, the Indian Army, Indian Princes and the Empire, British Trade in India, and Fighting Plague at Bombay. The volume was published by P S King & Son at Orchard House, Westminster, London, 1903.
Inserted into the volume, probably for promotional purposes, is a flyer advertising a book from the same publisher, entitled 'Parliament: Its Romance, Its Comedy, Its Pathos' (folio 17).
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- 1 volume (31 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 33; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Mss Eur F111/379
- Title
- 'Russia and India in 1903'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:17v, 17ar, 17av, 18r:32v, back-i, back
- Author
- Vincent, Sir Charles Edward Howard
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- Public Domain