



Produced by Ron Swanson





_Rulers of India_


EDITED BY

SIR WILLIAM WILSON HUNTER, K.C.S.I.: C.I.E.: M.A. (OXFORD): LL.D.
(CAMBRIDGE)


THE EARL OF MAYO




London

HENRY FROWDE

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE

AMEN CORNER, E.C.


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[Illustration: MAP OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE]


[Frontispiece: Mayo. _Collotype. Oxford University Press._]




RULERS OF INDIA

THE EARL OF MAYO

BY SIR WILLIAM WILSON HUNTER, K.C.S.I.: C.I.E.: M.A.: LL.D.




Oxford

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS: 1891




Oxford

PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY




CONTENTS


CHAP.                                                    PAGES

   I. INTRODUCTION..................    7-16

  II. THE MAN ....................   17-79

 III. THE ACTUAL PROCESS OF VICEREGAL GOVERNMENT...   80-97

  IV. LORD MAYO'S DEALINGS WITH THE FEUDATORY STATES.   98-118

   V. LORD MAYO'S FOREIGN POLICY...........  119-135

  VI. LORD MAYO'S FINANCIAL REFORMS .........  136-157

 VII. LORD MAYO'S MILITARY POLICY ..........  158