Letters On India to John Tremayne
Letters On India to John Tremayne
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British India is divided into districts, of every imaginable shape and population, with an average population of between 800, 000 and 1, 000, 000. To direct, control, and report on the whole civil polity and domestic economy of these i 2 116 LETTERS ON INDIA.
principalities ; to administer justice, to collect revenue and adjust taxation ; to see to the proper appropria- tions of all the sums for roads, schools, tanks, wells, surveys, charities, &c. , there are never more than six, and generally... either three or four civil officers of the Company. We see at once the impossibility of these men, however laborious and energetic, com- pleting individually a hundredth part of this Hercu- lean labour. They must depend almost entirely upon their native clerks and assistants for informa- tion, and for the execution of their orders; every information that reaches the ears of the collector must come through the native officials; and in a country where, as I said before, venality is no crime, and any number of men can be procured to swear black is white for one anna a day, it is easy to perceive how difficult it must be to arrive at the truth of anything in India, and how impossible to remedy it when dis- covered.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
British India is divided into districts, of every imaginable shape and population, with an average population of between 800, 000 and 1, 000, 000. To direct, control, and report on the whole civil polity and domestic economy of these i 2 116 LETTERS ON INDIA.
principalities ; to administer justice, to collect revenue and adjust taxation ; to see to the proper appropria- tions of all the sums for roads, schools, tanks, wells, surveys, charities, &c. , there are never more than six, and generally... either three or four civil officers of the Company. We see at once the impossibility of these men, however laborious and energetic, com- pleting individually a hundredth part of this Hercu- lean labour. They must depend almost entirely upon their native clerks and assistants for informa- tion, and for the execution of their orders; every information that reaches the ears of the collector must come through the native officials; and in a country where, as I said before, venality is no crime, and any number of men can be procured to swear black is white for one anna a day, it is easy to perceive how difficult it must be to arrive at the truth of anything in India, and how impossible to remedy it when dis- covered.
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