The progress of education continued to be reviewed by different Commissions and Committees, some of whose recommendations were put into practice by the Government. These bodies were the Calc... Read more

The growth of political consciousness among women is strikingly illustrated by the success of the Women’s Suffrage Movement since the day when the historic All-India Women’s Depu... Read more

Both Gokhale and Srinivasa Sastri, who succeeded him as President of the Society on his death in 1915, devoted themselves mainly to politics and attained unique distinction in that line. Som... Read more

But the working of these Acts revealed some defects in them, and, at the same time, industrial unrest, the influence of the labour movement, and the co-operation of India, as an original mem... Read more

Industry The Famine Commission of 1880 and 1901 emphasised the need of industrialising India as one of the means of combating the problem of famine. A change from the indifferent attitude of... Read more

The Co-operative Movement Frederick Nicholson, a Madras civilian, first suggested in his Report (1892) to the Madras Government the introduction of co-operative credit societies in India. In... Read more

Irrigation Irrigation works have a special importance in an agricultural country like India, where the rainfall is unequally distributed throughout the seasons and is liable to failure or se... Read more

With the beginning of attempts for the introduction of the proposed Federal Constitution, the important question of the distribution of revenues between the Central Government and the Provin... Read more

As regards the organisation of the Army, we may note that the Command system introduced by Lord Kitchener in 1904 was abolished by him in 1907, when the Indian Army was divided into two sect... Read more

Police and Jails The Police system established by the Police Act of 1861 revealed grave defects in actual working, chiefly because the responsible task of maintaining law and order was entru... Read more