INDEX.

Abir Company, 347.

Achour, 135.

Acquisition, expense of, 82.

Africa, 70 ; agriculture in, 288 sq. ; army, 296; character of natives, 384; currency in, 64, 164, 180; experiment stations,

280; export trade, 232; free trade zone, 105; cotton imports into, 321; Mohammedanism in, 73 ; partition of, 5 ; river sys­tems, 259; sanitation in, 70; social life, 59.

Agra, 127, 326.

Agriculture, 276 sq.

Agricultural credit, 325; loans, 185 sq 193» 19 S* 197 , 199 -

Algeria, 53, 78, 86, 101, 145, 159» 237. 259, 263* 332, 399; bank, 191; budget, 156; commerce, 244; concession policy, 338; forestry, 302; head tax, 139; individual property, 317; land laws, 316, 334; land tax, 135; loan, 157.

Alligator societies, 78.

American Economic Association, committee on colonial taxation, 93 -

Arab influences in Africa, 61; slave raiding, 385.

Argentina, 246.

Army, 392 sq.

Assam, 277, 366.

Assuan dam, 298.

Assimilation policy, 15, 20.

Atchin War, 91, 408.

Australia, 158, 215, 216.

Banks and banking, 83 sq.

Barbarous customs, 77.

Benevolence theory, 6.

Bengal, 117, 294.

Bentinck, Lord, 250.

Berlin, general act of 1885, 104, 345 -

Bombay, 128, 308, 324.

Bornu, 165.

British Cotton Growing Associa­tion, 290.

Brussels Conference of 1890, 74, 105, 112; Sugar Conference,

221; Supplementary Declara­tion, 106.

Budget, colonial, 85.

Buitenzorg, 276.

Burma, 128; head tax, 137; mili­tary police, 410.

Business taxes, 141.

Cacao, 290.

Caisse de la Dette, 149.

Camphor monopoly, 122.

Canada, 215, 216.

Cantonment, 332.

Cape to Cairo Railway, 261, 263, 267.

Capital in colonies, 184, 187.

Capitation taxes, 137 sq.

Caste organization, 12.

Ceylon, 90, 99, 153, 164, 282, 291, 301» 334» 342; agriculture, 278; commerce, 227; education, 54, 55; tea, 222, 286.

Chamberlain, Mr., 84, 213, 214, 226, 383; on liquor legislation, 75 -

China, 222.

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