. The north-western provinces of India : their history, ethnology, and administration . ,5/V2><c» trv<3 THE NORTH-WESTERNPROVINCES OF INDIA THEIR HISTORY, ETHNOLOGY, ANDADMINISTRATION W. CROOKE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE (RETIRED) WITHSIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, LONDON 1897 PREFACE T^HIS book is an attempt to tell the story of one of thegreatest of our Indian Provinces from the social pointof view. If some space has been given to the geography ofthe country, it has been intended to explain the environmentof the people. The sketch of the hist
. The north-western provinces of India : their history, ethnology, and administration . ,5/V2><c» trv<3 THE NORTH-WESTERNPROVINCES OF INDIA THEIR HISTORY, ETHNOLOGY, ANDADMINISTRATION W. CROOKE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE (RETIRED) WITHSIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, LONDON 1897 PREFACE T^HIS book is an attempt to tell the story of one of thegreatest of our Indian Provinces from the social pointof view. If some space has been given to the geography ofthe country, it has been intended to explain the environmentof the people. The sketch of the history up to the establish-ment of our rule has been written with the same object. Ihave then endeavoured to discuss briefly some of the chiefsocial problems which the Government has attempted tosolve—the repression of crime, the crusade against filth anddisease, the relief of famine, of the depressed classes, thedevelopment of agriculture and trade. This is followed by an account of the people themselves,largely based on information collected in the course of theEthnographicalnorthwesternpro00croo
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