India, Old and New eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 367 pages of information about India, Old and New.

India, Old and New eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 367 pages of information about India, Old and New.

British rule: 
  co-operation the principle of, 12-13, 66-8, 74, 204-8, 300-301
  education and, 79-82, 299-300
  evolution of, 66-83. See Crown sovereignty, East India Company,
    Parliamentary control
  Gandhi and, 191
  goal of, 12-13, 76-7, 79, 149, 162-4, 301-2

Bubonic plague appears, 88

Buddha, 25, 26, 27-8;
  bones of, discovered, 34

Buddhism, rise and fall of, 27, 29-34, 39-40
  Hinduism and, 31, 34-5

Budget deficit, 268-9

Calcutta, 6-12
  capital removed from, 128, 129
  co-operation revived in, 204-5
  labour conditions in, 271
  Supreme Court created, 72
  Western-educated women in, 8

Calcutta University, 8, 114, 205-6

Canada and Indian immigrants, 211, 282

Canning, Lord, 82-3, 91

Cape Colony, Indians in, 280, 281

Carmichael, Lord, 207

Caste system, the, 23, 43-5, 64, 107, 215-19, 224
  Akbar hostile to, 58, 60
  Gandhi and, 169, 186-7, 219
  reform attempted, 236

Central Provinces: 
  caste system in, 215-19
  “Non-co-operation” campaign in, 214-15, 218-19

Chamber of Princes, the, 1, 2, 158, 239, 241-5

Chamberlain, Rt.  Hon. Austen, 144, 150

Chanakya, 29

Chandavarkar, Sir Narain, 171

Chandni Chauk bomb outrage, 129-30

Chandragupta I., 37

Chandragupta II., 37, 38

Chandragupta Maurya, 28-9

Charnock, Job, 10

Chatterjee, Mr. B.C., 206

Chawls, 271

Chelmsford, Lord, 143, 144, 145, 172, 301.
  See Montagu-Chelmsford reforms

Chinese travellers in India, 24, 25, 26, 33, 38, 39, 40

Chintamani, Mr., 202

Chitawan Brahmans, 113

Christian converts, training of, 218

Churchill, Rt.  Hon. Winston, 283

Civil Service, see Indian Civil Service

Clive, Lord, 68, 70, 86

Coal mines of Tata Company, 251

Community representation, 127, 157-8, 193, 211, 223-4

Connaught, H.R.H. the Duke of,
  inauguration ceremonies and speeches by, 1, 2, 4, 185, 228, 243, 303
  boycott of, 4, 6, 12

Co-operation, the principle of British rule, 12-13, 66-8, 74, 204-8, 300-301

Cornwallis, Lord, 199

Cotton imports duty, 147-8, 247, 269

Council of State proposed, 155

Crewe, Lord, 134

Crown colonies and Indians, 277, 282-5, 306-8

Crown sovereignty over India, 73, 86

Currency and exchange policy, 262, 263-7

Currency Committee, 264-5

Curtis, Mr. Lionel, 157

Curzon, Lord, 103, 114-15, 120, 246
  and Indians in Transvaal, 281
  Partition of Bengal by, 103, 114-15
  Universities Act of, 120

Curzon-Wylie, Sir W., murdered, 122

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