India : Essays on Economy Governance and Religion in the Nineteenth Century

Contents: Introductory note. I. Economy: 1. Famines in India: some lessons, some remedies. 2. Frontier wars and famines : some thoughts on their inter-relatedness. 3. Wars, famines and plagues: blessings of new imperialism in India. 4. The currency question. II. Governance: 5. How not to administer India: Presidential address to the Indian National Congress, 1899. 6. On some aspects of British Administration of India, 1900. 7. On good governance. 8. On the land tax in India. 9. On the executive and judiciary, 1893. 10. The Calcutta Municipal Bill: another dose of new imperialism. 11. The New Sedition Law. III. Religion: 12. The Hindu religion. 13. Hindu Philosophy: an introduction. 14. The Ramayana. 15. The Mahabharata.

"This collection of 15 learned essays by one of India\'s greatest renaissance men, R.C. Dutt, ICS, is a valuable source to know the late 19 century colonial India. It shows the colonial economy, governance and culture in their true colours. More importantly, it shows many dark, dusty but highly useful things lying hidden in T.S. Elliot\'s words, in history\'s cunning passages and contrived corridors and fills many a gap in our knowledge of the colonial times.

Besides this, the book also tells us a great deal about our religion, philosophy and epics.

No student of the 19 century India can afford to ignore this highly informative book!"