Asiatic Quarterly Review (Full Title: The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review, and Oriental and Colonial Record): Volume XIII, No. 26 [‎547v] (219/238)

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SUMMARY OF EVENTS.
India: General.—O n February 14 Lord Curzon issued a proclamation
formally announcing that the Coronation festivities in connection with the
accession of the King will take place in January, 1903, at a special Darbar 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).
to be held at Delhi. Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, heads of adminis
trations, princes, chiefs, nobles, and representatives of the people, will be
invited, and orders in the Viceroy’s Council will be issued forthwith for
appropriate public ceremonies and rejoicings.
A Government resolution announces that an anrtual provision of one lac One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. will be made for the preservation of ancient monuments, and
urges that the provinces should also fix annual payments for this
purpose.
The Budget estimates for 1902-3 show a surplus of ,£838,000, with
closing balances on March, 1903, of £'10,832,000 in India, and £4,851,000
in England.
The Government has issued a resolution dealing with recent attacks on
the land revenue system. It explains the principles of the system, replies
to the criticisms urged against it, and maintains that the system is well
suited to the present conditions of the country, and compatible with its
future development; and that the revenue which it provides, and which is
more lenient in its incidence than at any previous stage of Indian history, is
capable of being levied from the people with surprisingly little hardship and
without discontent.
In the middle of March the number of persons in receipt of famine relief
was 380,000. There was still no sign of rain.
The seventeenth Indian National Congress was opened in Calcutta at
the end of last December. Mr. D. E. Wacha presided, and over 5,000
persons were present. Resolutions were passed on the questions of famine,
the separation of judicial and executive functions, the strengthening of the
Privy Council by the appointment of Indian lawyers, police reforms, and
other subjects.
The Indian Social Conference was also held at the same time, under the
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. of Raja King Benoy Krishna Deb Bahadur, the leader of the Calcutta
Orthodox Hindu community. The conference emphasized the necessity of
widespread female education at home and in public institutions. Other
resolutions referred to the sea-voyage movement, the admission into Hindu
society after a sea-voyage, the fusion of the subcastes, the curtailment of
marriage expenses, the raising of the marriageable age, the relaxation of the
rules regarding intermarriages, child-widow marriages, the admission of
converts to Hindu society, the establishment of orphanages, and the spread
of temperance and purity. With the exception of the widow remarriage
and subcaste fusion questions, all the other resolutions were unanimously
carried.
The conferences on Rajkumar Colleges, over which His Excellency the
Viceroy presided daily, ended on January 30. All the main questions
were fully thrashed out, and a select committee, consisting mainly of heads