11.  The author means secretaries to the Government of India or provincial governments.

12.  The Sagar and Nerbudda (Narbada) Territories, now included in the Central Provinces.

13.  The designations Sadr Amin and Principal Sadr Amin have been superseded by the title of Subordinate Judge.  The officers referred to have only civil jurisdiction, which does not include revenue and rent causes in the United Provinces.

14.  Most experienced officers will, I think, agree with me that the author was exceptionally fortunate in his experience.  So far as I can make out, the standard of integrity among the higher Indian officials has risen considerably during the last century, but is still a long way from the perfection indicated by the author’s remarks.

15.  These observations on the police are merely a repetition of the remarks in Chapter 69, which have been discussed in the notes to that chapter.

16.  The districts in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh are usually much smaller than those in Bengal or Madras, but even in Northern India a district with only a million of inhabitants is considered to be rather a small one.  Some districts have a population of more than three millions each.

17.  All has been changed.  Many comparatively well paid officials of Indian birth now intervene between the District Magistrate and the small people on twenty-five rupees a month.  Sometimes the District Magistrate himself is an Indian.

18.  The anthor’s note to this passage repeats the quotation from Hobbes’s Leviathan, Part II, sect. 30, which has been already cited in the text, chapter 69, following [12], and need not be repeated here.  The note continues:  ’Almost every Thanadar in our dominions is a little Tarquin in his way, exciting the indignation of the people against his master.  When we give him the proper incentives to good, we shall be able with better conscience to punish him severely for bad conduct.  The interposition of the officers I propose between him and the magistrate will give him the required incentive to good conduct, at the same time that it will deprive him of all hope of concealing his “evil ways”, should he continue in them.’ [W.  H. S.] He still manages to continue in his evil ways, and generally to conceal them.

19.  This statement seems almost like sarcasm to a reader who knows what manner of men well-paid Inspectors of Police commonly are, and how they are regarded by the non-official population.  They are not usually reverenced as ‘protectors of the poor’.

20.  The reader who is not practically acquainted with the work of administration in India will probably think that the magistrate who allows such intrigues to go on must be very careless and inefficient.  But that thought, though very natural, would be unjust.  The author was one of the best possible district magistrates, and yet was unable to suppress the evils which he describes, nor have the remedies which he advocated, and which have been adopted, proved effectual.  The Thanadar now has generally to pay the Inspector and the people in the District Superintendent’s office, in addition to ’the native officers of the magistrate’s court’.