...to deal. Under these circumstances, as General Strachey wrote at the time, ' the distribution of the public income degenerated into something like a scramble,...the advantage, with very little attention to reason ; as local economy brought no local advantage, the stimulus to avoid waste was reduced to a minimum,...

...to deal. Under these circumstances, as General Strachey wrote at the time, ' the distribution of the public income degenerated into something like a scramble,...the advantage, with very little attention to reason ; as local economy brought no local advantage, the stimulus to avoid waste was reduced to a minimum,...

...Provincial Governments for financial doles. As Sir Richard Strachey observed, "the distribution of the public income degenerated into something like a scramble,...the advantage, with very little attention to reason. As local autonomy brought no local advantage the stimulus to avoid waste was reduced to a minimum,...

...they made. To quote the words of Sir Richard Strachey, which have become classic in this connection, " the distribution of public income degenerated into...the advantage with very little attention to reason." But what is more important from our point of view is that in 1871, the year in which Lord Mayo made...

...(who was the real author of the changes that followed) wrote at the time ' the distribution of the public income degenerated into something like a scramble,...the advantage, with very little attention to reason. As local economy brought no local advantage, the stimulus to avoid waste was reduced to a minimum,...

...Government of India's point of view the situation was described as one in which "the distribution of the public income degenerated into something like a scramble,...in which the most violent had the advantage, with little attention to reason".1 From the other point of view, the Government of India, in endeavouring...