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. 1881 Excerpt: ...to be indispensable. Its successful accomplishment would be the crowning feat of Indian statesmanship. 197 CHAPTER VI. LEGISLATION AND COUBTS. None of the problems to-which the British administration of India has given rise have been more difficult, or more interesting, than that involved in the provision of laws for ...
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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. 1881 Excerpt: ...to be indispensable. Its successful accomplishment would be the crowning feat of Indian statesmanship. 197 CHAPTER VI. LEGISLATION AND COUBTS. None of the problems to-which the British administration of India has given rise have been more difficult, or more interesting, than that involved in the provision of laws for the country, and of the machinery by which those laws may be interpreted and enforced. The first English rulers of Bengal speedily became aware of the serious nature of the duties which their newly-assumed position, as the supreme authority in questions of criminal and civil justice, Administra-imposed upon them. Every form of under the Mo-social order--and law the most of all--gnuis. had suffered almost complete eclipse under the decrepitude of the later Moghul sovereigns. A feeble semblance of a judicial system was, indeed, maintained in the confines of the Mahomedan head-quarters at Moorshedabad; but law, in the sense of the exact definition and adequate enforcement of individual rights, can hardly be said to 7th Eeport have existed. "The subjects of the of toSSJ"6 Moghul Empire "--so it was officially mid's BRegu. reported of the tribunals in 1773--Bengal %ode "derived little protection or security 136-from any of these courts, and in general, though forms of judicature were established and preserved, the despotic principles of the Government rendered them the instruments of power rather than of justice, not only unavailing to protect the people, but often the means of the most grievous oppressions under the cloak of the judicial character." The vague powers of the tribunals or the individuals who assumed the right to represent them, the practical impossibility of appeal, "the frequent interposition of the Gove...
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