[1] This rock on its eastern face contains the decrees of Asoka, who began
to reign 263 B.C.; on the western face is the inscription of Rudradaman,
one of the Satrap-rulers under an Indian Greek dynasty, circa 90 B.C.; and
the northern face presents the inscription of Skandagupta, 240 A.D.
[2] Preface to _Vishnu Purana_.
[3] Elphinstone, _History of India_, vol. i. p. 511.
[4] See Aitcheson, _Treaties_, vol. vi. p. 18.
[5] _A Hindu Gentleman's Reflections._ Spiers, London, 1878.
[6] Widow-burning.
[7] The swing-sacrifice.
[8] _Views and Opinions of General John Jacob._ London, 1858.
[9] October 1865, and October 1866.
[10] _England and Russia in the East._ Murray.
[11] 59 Geo. III. c. 55, s. 43.
[12] _Report on East India Public Works_, p. 85.
[13] The career of Mr. Dadobhai Naoroji illustrates in a remarkable manner
the operation of the system of education introduced under our government.
A Parsi, born in Bombay of very poor parents, he received his education at
the Elphinstone College, where he displayed so much intelligence that in
1845 an English gentleman, desirous to open up a new career for educated
natives, offered to send him to England to study for the bar if any of the
wealthy merchants of his community would pay half the expenses. But in
those days the Parsis, like the Hindus, dreaded contact with England, and
the offer fell to the ground. Dadobhai continued at the College, where he
obtained employment as a teacher, and subsequently became professor of
mathematics, no native having previously filled such a post. In 1845 he
left scholastics and joined the first native mercantile house established
in London. This firm commenced with great success, and Dadobhai no sooner
found himself master of 5,000l. than he devoted it to public objects in
his native city. The house of Messrs. Cama subsequently failed, and
Dadobhai returned to Bombay, where, as above noted, he took an active part
in municipal affairs, and was subsequently appointed Dewan to the Gaekwar.
He is now carrying on business as a merchant on his own account in London.
[14] _Rambles of an Indian Official_, 1844.
[15] So long ago as the period when Colonel Sleeman wrote, the principle
was fully established as to the moderation to be observed in the
Government assessment. He says: "We may rate the Government share at
one-fifth as the maximum and one-tenth as the minimum of the gross
produce." (_Rambles of an Indian Official_, vol i. p. 251.) In the Blue
Book laid before Parliament last Session on the Deccan riots, it will be
seen that the Government share in the gross produce of those districts
where a high assessment was supposed to have created the disturbances was
only one-thirteenth.