Administrative Problems of British India (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Administrative Problems of British India (Classic Reprint) written by Joseph Chailley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Administrative Problems of British India M. Joseph Chailley, the author of the French work L'lnde Britannique, of which an English version is now presented, is well known in France, and outside it, as a student of Oriental problems. He is a distinguished member and publicist of the French Colonial School, and has, since 1906, represented one of the divisions of Vendee in the Chamber of Deputies. M. Chailley has made a long and special study of the methods of administration in British dependencies, and in 1892 he published a volume on Hong-Kong and Burma, under the title of La Colonisation de l'Indo-Chine, which was translated into English. He personally visited India twice, in 1900-1 and again in 1904-5, charged with a mission to study our administrative systems there for the benefit of French Colonial administration. During the latter visit I was Indian Editor of the recently published Imperial Gazetteer of India, and in that capacity I was able to assist M. Chailley with information in regard to the matters he was studying, and to supplement this by personal experience of administrative work in Madras and with the Government of India. Our acquaintance soon ripened into friendship; and M. Chailley, having determined to embody the results of some of his researches in book form, asked me to revise his manuscripts, and to undertake an English version. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.