Studies of Indian Life and Sentiment

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This book contains descriptions of various aspects of India as seen through the eyes of a British officer. Highly informative and comprehensive it was originally published in 1910 to provide British officers in understanding India. The different chapters deal with various aspects of India such as the Indian monsoons, topography, history, religions, domestic life of the people, famines, manufactures and commerce, tax and revenue, the police and courts, education, etc.

Bampfylde Fuller (1854-1935) was a British inventor, author of more than nine books and an ICS. Beginning his career in Indian Civil Ser-vices as the Commissioner of Settlements and Agriculture of Central Provinces he went on to become the first Lieutenant Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam.

THIS book will not contribute much that is new to the stores which Indian experience and study have collected. But it may be of service in diffusing in-formation which these stores seclude. Of recent years the British democracy has begun to realise more insistently its responsibilities towards India ; and Indian affairs excite increasing interest. My object has been to use an intimate acquaintance with the country to give such an account of it, of its people and of its government, as may assist others to understand the problems that are offered by the development of a vast population for whom the British nation is trustee.

I am indebted for kind advice to Sir Charles Lyall ; and I acknowledge assistance derived from Sir Herbert Risley's People of India, Mr. Vincent Smith's Early History of India, and from the Imperial Gazetteer of India. My thanks are also due to the Editor of the Nineteenth Century and After for permission to extract some passages from articles that I have contributed to that review.