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CONTENTS. 



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v.— CosTLi:<ESS OF JcsTiCE 106-110 308-319 



1. The machinery provided for the decision of petty litigation ... 106 308-311 



2. Higher litigation 107 311-313 



3. Reforms suggested by Mr. Strange ' 108 313-315 



4. Criminal justice 109 315-317 



5. Merits and demerits of British system of justice as applied to 



this country 110 317-319 



VI. — Local and Municipal Administration 



AFFECTING SoCIAL USAGES 



AND Legislation 



111-120 319-340 



I)iBintegration of village communities ..• Ill 319 



Causes of the decay of communal spirit 112 319-32] 



Progress of local administration ... ... ... ... ... 113 321,322 



DiflBculties of local administration and success attained therein 114 322-324 

 On what lines local administration should be -worted to ensure 



greater success ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 115 324,325 



Necessity for utilizing Local Boards as initiating and advising 



bodies in legislation affecting social usages, &c. ... ... 116 325-328 



Difficulties in .dealing with legislation affecting laws of inheri- 

 tance and social usages illustrated by projects for legislation 



before the Madras Legislative Council • ... ... 117 328-332 



Further remarks on the same subject ... ... ... ... 118 332 



9. Unsatisfactory state of the law relating to native religious 



endowments ... ... ... ... •.• ••■ ■•• 119 332,333 



10. Concluding remarks 120 333-340 



6. 



7. 



8. 



APPENDICES. 



Section I.— THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY AND THE CONDI- 

 TION OF THE PEOPLE IN FORMER CENTURIES. 



Page 

 i-xix 



A. — Sketch of the Dynasties of Southern India extracted from 

 Lists of Antiquities, Madras, by Mr. R. Sewell, M.C.S. 



B. — Orissa under Hindu and British Administrations (from Hunter's 

 Orissa) ... ... ... ... 



C. — Extract from the Article on "India" in Hunter's Gazetteer of 



I'fdia 

 D. — Extract from the Journal of the ArchcBological Survey of India, 



Vol.IV 



E. — Abstract showing the revenue in paddy which a number of 

 villages in the" Chola country had to pay to the Tanjore 

 temple ... .... ... ... ... ... ... _ 



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v-xiv 



XlX 



Section II.— THE CONDITION OF THE PRESIDENCY AT THE 

 END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WHEN 

 MOST OF THE PROVINCES OF SOUTHERN 

 INDIA WERE ACQUIRED BY THE "BRITISH ... 



A. — Extracts from official reports showing the condition of the 

 several districts at the time they came under British 

 administration 



B. — A list of Moturpha taxes, levied in the village of Singanallfir, 

 in the Coimbatore district, taken from the records kept by 

 the kamam of the village 



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