The Cotton and Commerce of India: Considered in Relation to the Interests of Great Britain; with Remarks on Railway Communication in the Bombay Presidency

J. Chapman, 1851 - 412 pages

CHAPTER I	1

Page	3

European commercial agency in the interior	14

CHAPTER II	27

Practical questions affecting present proceedings	28

Proportion of the supply derived from different parts of India	29

The Northern Circars	35

In what sense the countries about to be described are superior	41

CHAPTER VI	184

charge for carriage	191

230	196

Courses of the several proposed lines	201

depends on commercial success	215

The line by the Malsej Ghaut	216

Probability of improvement shown by garden cultivation	222

Fear of improvements very general and sometimes leads to violence	227

Boundaries of the country affording the abovementioned supply	51

The book of Lieut Col Grant	55

17	58

CHAPTER III	60

18	70

62	82

Cost in Liverpool with bullockcarriage often occasioned loss	85

Inducement to extend and improve the cultivation	91

Decay of ancient works of irrigation	97

Taxation and economics of the time of Akber	100

27	115

taxation	134

all Columbia	154

Brazil	160

Connection of roads with imports	168

Eligibility and accessibility of India for such extension	174

Allegation of monopoly is opposition to improvement	181

English tunnels	260

Discussion of objections	271

The line by Poonah	278

That line the best which will carry most goods	304

Improbability of lower charges for bullock and cartcarriage	320

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PROSECUTION OF INDIAN PUBLIC	323

separate department for an extrapolitical object	334

State of public departments in England approaching in nature to private business	340

Disposal of the profitsprinciple	352

Contrasted probable progress of the United States	363

Advantage of concentration of the ascent	365

NOTICE OF THE PAPERS SUBMITTED TO MR STEPHENSON	373

The northern and southern traffic	380

Comparative lengths of the present and the Malsej routes	393

REPORT OF GEO T CLARK Esq C E ON THE ENGINEERING	397

APPENDIX	404

Title	The Cotton and Commerce of India: Considered in Relation to the Interests of Great Britain; with Remarks on Railway Communication in the Bombay Presidency The Cotton and Commerce of India: Considered in Relation to the Interests of Great Britain; with Remarks on Railway Communication in the Bombay Presidency, John Chapman
Author	John Chapman
Publisher	J. Chapman, 1851
Original from	Northwestern University
Digitized	25 Apr 2011
Length	412 pages

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