John Bourne epub Public Works in India: Being a Letter to the Right Honourable Richard Vernon Smith, M. P., President of the Board of Control; Illustrative of the ... in India, to Develop the Resources of

Excerpt from Public Works in India: Being a Letter to the Right Honourable Richard Vernon Smith, M. P., President of the Board of Control; Illustrative of the Necessity of Irrigation and Internal Navigation Being Largely Promoted in India, to Develop the Resources of That Country, and PreveAs the momentous subject of public works in India is at present attracting much interest in this country, and as I have given to that part of the general question which more particularly refers to internal communications my constant attention for the last ten years, I beg leave to be permitted to lay before you the results of my observation and reflection on that subject, in the hope that they will be found not altogether un worthy of consideration. I am induced to adventure these remarks from the cordial interest in the welfare of India which was manifested by your recent speech in Parliament on Indian affairs, much of which, as Sir Erskine Perry justly remarks, must have gone home to the hearts of all who took an interest in the welfare or progress of India. I will not here repeat the terms of admiration in which that speech is everywhere spoken of, and especially as regards its main point of distinction, - the transparency and sincerity of purpose which mark it from end to end. How grateful the contrast between such singleness of spirit and the Shams and equivocations by which, in such statements as the one you had to make, the truth is often wilfully con cealed or perverted!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.