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which India's rapid advance in civilisation suggests ; without under- 

 taking any of the rural public works which a tropical country so 

 urgently requires ; without allowing a rupee for bringing our materiel 

 of war up to the modern European standard ; the Indian Government 

 will find at the end of each ten years the revenue which sufficed at the 

 beginning of the decade altogether insufficient at the close of it. — 

 Hunter's " Orissa:' 



(Q.)— ^Ex-trad fro)n the Article on " India " i)i Hunter's 

 " Gazetteer of India:'' 



Eevenues of the Moghul Emperors at thirteen various periods, from 

 1593 to 1761/ from a smaller area and population than those of 

 British India. 



> The above table is reproduced from Mr. Edward Thomas' Revenue Resources of the 

 Moghul Empire, published in 1871, and has been revised by him from materials which 

 he has collected since that date. — I insert the words we< and ^ro«* by his direction. 



' This is the lowest estimate at which the Bumi or Landwehr, in contradiction to the 

 Royal Army, can be reckoned. — Mr. Thomas' jR*w»«e Resources of the Moghul Einpire, 

 page 12. ' *■ 



