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By John W. Cell

William Malcolm Hailey (1872-1969) used to be via universal consent the main uncommon member of the Indian Civil provider within the 20th century, and one of many few raised to the peerage (1936). Going out to India in 1894, he served because the first leader commissioner of Delhi (1912-18), as Finance after which domestic Member of the Viceroy's Council (1919-24), after which as Governor of the Punjab (1924-28) and the United Provinces (1928-34). As consultant to 5 viceroys, he used to be the most clever builders of the British process based on the problem of Gandhi and the Indian nationwide Congress. After leaving India he had what amounted to a moment occupation with regards to Africa, within which he directed variations of the African Survey (1938, 1956), wrote vital experiences on British colonial management, and served as an consultant to the Colonial place of work. this is often the 1st book-length learn of Hailey's occupation. Its better topic, during which the fellow himself performed a really outstanding variety of vital roles, is the subject of colonialism-nationalism-decolonization: spanning greater than part a century on continents. John W. phone, Professor of background at Duke collage, has written 3 books within the fields of historical past of the British Empire-Commonwealth and comparative kinfolk.

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Grants would have to be larger than those on the Chenab, and primogeniture would be essential to prevent them from being broken up. Whereas the Chenab would have prosperous, self-cultivating peasants, Wilson foresaw, on the Jhelum primogeniture would prevent subdivision, creating a subtenant class and ultimately even rack-renting. Yet the Indian army's need seemed to be compelling. 13 In July 1901 Hailey had expected to proceed on the lines of the Chenab model. By the time he took charge in November it was already clear that the scheme would be entirely different.

Bd. , Rev/Ag (Irrig), April 1905, No. 5. Rivaz comment on AR (1904-5), IOR V/24/2479. AR (1901-2), IOR V/24/2478. See speech in reply to address from Shahpur District Agricultural Association, Sargodha, 13 December 1926, H P I / 4 4 . AR (1903-4), IOR V/24/2478. " Even though their names might be on the approved list of agricultural tribes, such folk made poor colonists. "47 The young colonization officer's concern was getting the best colonists. 48 By the time Hailey left the Jhelum in March 1907 the nucleus of Sargodha had been built according to the segregated pattern typical of British India: the civil station with offices, treasury, courthouse and jail; the civil lines, including houses for the colonization officer and other officials, a tennis club for Europeans, and a church; the Indian quarter, with less stringent sanitary requirements, a market, vernacular school, and mosque.

Within a few years Hailey would come to agree with him. Meanwhile, the settlement commissioner, James Wilson, sided with Thorburn, maintaining that in making grants of its wastelands the state should impose any conditions it thought best. 9 And so it was decided. The preference for Muslims was also Thorburn's idea. The grounds were admittedly not economic, for Hindu and Sikh Jats were the province's best 6 7 8 9 This description is in fact drawn from a scene I witnessed in 1966 near Baroda, the site of the construction of an atomic reactor.

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