Indian and Pakistan Year Book and Who's whoSir Stanley Reed Bennett, Coleman & Company, 1928 - India Issues for 1919-47 include Who's who in India; 1948, Who's who in India and Pakistan. |
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... FAMINE INSURANCE GRANT . An annual pro- vision from revenue to meet direct famine expenditure , or the cost of certain classes of public works , or to avoid debt . FARMAN . - An imperial ( Mughal ) order or grant . FARZAND ( with ...
... FAMINE INSURANCE GRANT . An annual pro- vision from revenue to meet direct famine expenditure , or the cost of certain classes of public works , or to avoid debt . FARMAN . - An imperial ( Mughal ) order or grant . FARZAND ( with ...
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... famine administration denoting one person relieved for one day . URIAL . A wild sheep in North - Western India , OVIS VIGNEI . enabling the practiser , for instance to breathe in through one nostril and out at the other . YUNANI . Lit ...
... famine administration denoting one person relieved for one day . URIAL . A wild sheep in North - Western India , OVIS VIGNEI . enabling the practiser , for instance to breathe in through one nostril and out at the other . YUNANI . Lit ...
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... Famine relief organisation is now so highly perfected in India that scarcity is not necessarily accompanied by high mortality but induenza , starting in 1918 , visited almost every portion of the country and in a few months wiped out ...
... Famine relief organisation is now so highly perfected in India that scarcity is not necessarily accompanied by high mortality but induenza , starting in 1918 , visited almost every portion of the country and in a few months wiped out ...
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... famine in South India checked the increase in the decade 1872-1881 . The decen- nium 1891-1901 was dominated by the great famines of the closing period . Growth in North- ern and Western India was checked in the succeeding decade by ...
... famine in South India checked the increase in the decade 1872-1881 . The decen- nium 1891-1901 was dominated by the great famines of the closing period . Growth in North- ern and Western India was checked in the succeeding decade by ...
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... famine mortality which selects adversely to males and ( b ) the heavy mortality from plague and influenza which has selected adversely to females . a Marriage . The subject of polygamy has been discussed fully in the report of 1911 ...
... famine mortality which selects adversely to males and ( b ) the heavy mortality from plague and influenza which has selected adversely to females . a Marriage . The subject of polygamy has been discussed fully in the report of 1911 ...
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acres administration agricultural Ajmer-Merwara appointed Army Assam Assistant Avargal Babu Bank Bengal Berar Bihar Bihar and Orissa Board Bombay Branch British India Burma Calcutta capital cent Central Provinces charge Chief Civil co-operative College Commissioner Committee cotton Court crops crores currency Delhi Department Deputy Director District East elected Engineer established European expenditure famine female Finance Frontier funds gold Government of India Governor Governor-General Hindu Hon'ble important industry institutions irrigation Khan Bahadur labour lakhs land Legislative Council Lord Madras Maharaja Mahomedan Male Medical ment military Mission Muhammadan Municipal Nagpur Nawab Non-Muhammadan Rural North-West North-West Frontier Province officers organisation Orissa Police Poona population Port Presidency Punjab Railway Raja Rajputana Rangoon Reserve revenue ruler rupees scheme Scholars in Public schools Secretary Singh societies South square miles territory tion trade United Provinces University village women
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Page 500 - trade dispute' means any dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment, or the terms of employment, or with the conditions of labour of any person, and the expression "workmen...
Page 179 - We desire no extension of our present territorial possessions: and while we will permit no aggression upon our dominions or our rights to be attempted with impunity, we shall sanction no encroachment on those of others. We shall respect the rights, dignity, and honour of native princes as our own; and we desire that they, as well as our own subjects, should enjoy that prosperity and that social advancement which can only be secured by internal peace and good government.
Page 75 - The estimated annual expenditure and revenue of the province shall be laid in the form of a statement before the council in each year, and the proposals of the local government for the appropriation of provincial revenues and other moneys in any year shall be submitted to the vote of the council in the form of demands for grants.
Page 500 - Act had not been passed, have been deemed to have been an unlawful combination by reason of some one or more of its purposes being in restraint of trade.
Page 86 - GovernorGeneral shall appoint a date not more than six months, or, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, not more than nine months, after the date of dissolution for the next session of that chamber.
Page 81 - Government. 20. Development of Industries, in cases where such development by a central authority is declared by order of the Governor-General in Council, made after consultation with the Local Government or Local Governments concerned, expedient in the public interest.
Page 75 - The council may assent, or refuse its assent, to a demand, or may reduce the amount therein referred to either by a reduction of the whole grant or by the omission or reduction of any of the items of expenditure of which the grant is composed...
Page 311 - Keport) is their conviction that at the present rate of about 1'. 6d. " prices in India have already attained a substantial measure of' adjustment with those in the world at large, and as a corollary that any change in thV rate would mean a difficult period of readjustment, involving widespread economic disturbance, which it is most desirable in the interests of the people to avoid, and which would in the end be followed by no countervailing advantage...
Page 77 - The Committee desire that the relation of the two sides of the Government in this matter, as in all others, should be of such mutual sympathy that each will be able to assist and influence for the common good the work of the other, but not to exercise control over it.
Page 75 - Assembly is essential to the discharge of his responsibilities, act as if it had been assented to, notwithstanding the withholding of such assent, or the reduction of the amount therein referred to, by the Legislative Assembly.