CONTENTS.
SUBJECT.
Standard of living . . • •
Influence of European luxuries.
Outer forms of European civilisation : the railways <Sr'c. They do not indicate the progress of India Educational and economic effects of Indian railways
Influence of Indian railways upon Hindu progress not
considerable ......
Reflections on the civilising methods of the Western nations
The exclusive policy ......
Tranquillity maintaicedby British Rule favourable to progress
But to a small extent owing to its exclusive policy .
Present extent of the exclusion
Alleged reasons for the exclusive policy
Depression of material condition, a consequence of the
exclusion ...•••
Alleged indications of material prosperity —Expansion of trade
Growth of population not a good test of material prosperity in India ...•••
Growth comparatively small ....
Partly due to improved enumeration
Growth mainly in outlying parts of the country
Taxation in India, why heavy ....
Signs of material depression . . • •
Moral effect of the exclusive policy
Present conditions on the whole unfavourable t > sound intellectual development .....
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