Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-12
POLICY OF PROGRESS
HONORS PAID THE RETIRING
GOVERNOR OF MADRAS.


Special Cabegram TO The Star.
. CALCUTTA. March 12.--Lord Ampthil!,
the retiring governor of Madras, who for
long and important period acted as viceroy
of India during the absence of Lord Cur
zon received at the Madras club a farewell
banquet this week which was attended by
every member. The proceedings We're prt-
vate, but the enthusiasm displayed was
fitting close to the successful and univer-
sally recognized policy of progress carried
through and to a great extent initiated by
the retiring governor, who was accorded all
the special honors of the club and his car
riage dragged by the members part of the
way to the government house. 1t is gen
orally felt in Madras that Lord Ampthilis
period of office has had an important inf1I-
ence upon the methods of internal admins
tration of India. and his send-oH was
unique and spontaneous recognition Of
the excellent services he has rendered 20
the presidency, and to the governorship. to
which Sir Arthur Lawiey now succeeds
him.
Tie visit of their royal highnesses to
Haidarabad has called attention to the
wonderful rise of the Teigning dynasty, The
NizamS OF Haidara bad. AS reigning dy
nasty the nizams cannot it is true. in point
of antiquity vie with the Hindu princes OF
India 1t Is less than two centuries ago
that the founder of its fortunes rrst ar-
peared i'll the Deccan as the vfceroy of the
mogul emperors. with the title of Nizam-
ul-Mulk Bahadur-that is, exalted regulator
of the state-which has been retained ever
since by his successors The story Of the
rise of the nzams during the eighteenth
century first in nominal allegiance to and
gradually in more and more open defiance
OF Delhi; of the part they played, first on
one side and then on the other, in the In
dian episodes OF the great Anglo-French
struggle, and of the straits they were in
turn reduced to by the growth of the Nah
rata power, forms of the most instruc-
tive chapters in the history OF India. 1t IL
Illustrates, perhaps, more closely than airy
other the gradual evolution of British pol
icy toward the native states of Hinduism,
OF which Sir William LeeWarner has writ
ten.
Destined to Suffer.
Predictions were freely made last Sep
TENDER that, owing to the unsatisfactory
character of the monsoons. then fast
drawing TO close, there was reason to
fear that parts OF India We're destined to
suffer again this year from scarcity. per-
haps even from famine. Since then timely
rain in parts of the country has fortunately
somewhat improved the prospects, though
there is still unhappiy. a certainty of Sc
we're suffering for the poorer classes over
large area, especially in several of the
rains, from which much is expected in the
way OF stimulating and refreshing the
spring crops sOWn In the latter part or
after the conclusion of the regular rainy
season, Were scarcely more satisfactory in
character and distribution than the mon
soon itself There was a. long period of
anxious expectation of them, doomed often
to disappointment, though In the Puniab
and elsewhere they fell in somewhat insult
Gctent amount In some places where a
fall OF rain in November would have en-
abled much of the land or which the au-
tumn crops had failed to be sown again
with those of the spring. it was expected
III vain, and In other places the absence OF
rain in the winter months. coupled with the
presence OF abnornaiy hot weather and
dry west winds, has caused the spring
crops also TO wither. AS is well known il
Is on the cheap grains harvested In the au-
tumn that the agricultural and Iabo-iug
classes in the greater part OF the country
depend for their subsistence. A failure, or
the spring crops, however, makes bad mat
tiers worse.