The Currency Policy of India

Author:   James Barr Robertson
Publisher:   Rarebooksclub.com
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9781130393408


Pages:   32
Publication Date:   06 March 2012
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The Currency Policy of India


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...it, no doubt, very largely, but he did not see where the people of India would gain by it, except so far as their interests were identical with those of the Government and the mercantile classes, nor could he see that they had been prejudiced, the purchasing power of the rupee not having changed. He hoped it would be borne in mind on all sides that the Indian agriculturist was a poor man, and that the less taxes taken from him the better. He thought the military budget should be considered in very much the same way as the military budget was being considered in the House of Commons, and the fact should be admitted that what was required for the protection of India was not to put heavy guns in all sorts of inaccessible places, where nobody was coming to face them, but to keep a powerful navy in command of the sea. Sir James Wkstland, K.C.S.I., after congratulating the author on his exceedingly interesting survey, said he was present at a meeting some time ago, when the author of a paper seemed to fasten the blame of everything of an evil nature which had taken place upon the Government. The evils of every kind which had occurred in the coffee and tea plantations were put down as the results of the currency policy. The subject was a very difficult one, because it entered into the commonest concerns of the people, and it was impossible to carry into effect an operation of the kind described affecting 500 millions of people without inconveniencing somebody. He agreed with Mr. Rees's proposition that they did not always expect the operations decided on by the House of Commons to be carried out without some inconvenience; in fact, people in India did not expect anything from the House of Commons. The House of Commons was far more anxious to throw part of its burd...

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Author:   James Barr Robertson
Publisher:   Rarebooksclub.com
Imprint:   Rarebooksclub.com
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.077kg
ISBN:  

9781130393408


ISBN 10:   1130393402
Pages:   32
Publication Date:   06 March 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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