Open Letters to Lord Curzon Speeches and Papers

An authentic work that deals with the economic history of India, the volume comprises a nationalist intellectuals during an outspoken challenge to the British Viceroy through his letters and writings on the drawbacks of the British system of land tenure and taxation, famine and mal administration. Four papers on Indian epics and Hindu religion and philosophy enhance the value of the book.The present volume comprises his speeches and writings on Indian questions, during 18971902 and also includes his letters to the then Viceroy Lord Curzon on Indian famines and land tenures. In these speeches and writings he has discussed, threadbare, the causes of famines/ drawbacks of the British system of land tenure and Taxation and suggested fruitful remedies. The contents of this volume not only are very authentic source material for the study of the economic History of India, but also provide ample guidelines for the present policy makers and administrators. The volume also contains four papers on Indian epics and Hindu Religion and philosophy.