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 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1882 - 580 pages
...found also in Bengal and the North- Western Provinces. Their existence is always disclosed by the title of ' Deputy Commissioner.' Alike in Regulation and...depends upon the stimulus of his personal example. His position has been compared to that of the French pr'efet ; but such a comparison is unjust in many... | |
 | William Wilson Hunter - India - 1886 - 798 pages
...disclosed by the term ' Deputy Commissioner' as the title of the chief executive officer of the District. Alike in Regulation and in non-Regulation territory,...depends upon the stimulus of his personal example. His position has been compared to that of the French pri-fct ; but such a comparison is unjust in many... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Author of The Mediterranean illustrated - India - 1888 - 458 pages
...whole administrative hierarchy. I borrow from Sir William Hunter the following description : — ' The district officer, whether known as collector-magistrate...depends upon the stimulus of his personal example. His position has been compared to that of the French prefet, but such a comparison is unjust in many... | |
 | Sir John Strachey - Great Britain - 1888 - 458 pages
...whole administrative hierarchy. I borrow from Sir William Hunter the following description : — ' The district officer, whether known as collector-magistrate...depends upon the stimulus of his personal example. His position has been compared to that of the French prefet, but such a comparison is unjust in many... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics - Colonies - 1901 - 460 pages
...commissioner, is the responsible head of his jurisdiction. Upon his energy and personal character depend ultimately the efficiency of our Indian government....bewilder the outsider, and the work of his subordinates, native and European, largely depends upon the stimulus of his personal example. His position has been... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Ethnology - 1902 - 354 pages
...acquainted is larger than Denmark. " Upon his energy and personal character," writes Sir William Hunter, "depends ultimately the efficiency of our Indian Government....depends upon the stimulus of his personal example. His position has been compared to that of the French prtfet, but such a comparison is unjust in many... | |
 | Khushal Talaksi Shah, Gulestan Jamshedji Bahadurji - India - 1924 - 430 pages
...Officer," says Sir William Hunter in the Indian Empire, "whether known as the CollectorMagistrate or Deputy Commissioner, is the responsible head of his...Government. His own special duties are so numerous and various as to bewilder the outsider; and the work of his subordinates, European and Native, largely... | |
 | Burma - 1928 - 1022 pages
...examples of such efforts. The District Officer.— The unit of administration throughout British India is the district — a word of very definite meaning...personal character depends ultimately the efficiency of Indian government. His own special duties are so numerous and so various as to bewilder the outsider;... | |
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