Serious crime in an Indian province : being a record of the graver crimes committed in the North-western Provinces and Oudh during eleven years, 1876-1886, with three statistical appendices / by Eustace J. Kitts.

  • Kitts, Eustace J. (Eustace John)
Date:
1889
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Credit: Serious crime in an Indian province : being a record of the graver crimes committed in the North-western Provinces and Oudh during eleven years, 1876-1886, with three statistical appendices / by Eustace J. Kitts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    in its division from cattle-theft, while Hamirpur has similarly suffered from dacoits and robbers. Within the province itself the presence of criminal tribes in a district makes an important addition to the police work; and an accurate knowledge of their habits, customs and method of work becomes consequently most desirable. In this connection I have in the last paper put together a few notes taken from various sources but chiefly from the works of Major-General Sleeman. The most striking results of these papers may be thus summed up. As regards offences against the person, there is in ordinary years barely one murder to every hundred thousand persons (see p. 2 ), and as regards offences against property, the average loss per family (see p. 69) is less than two pence halfpenny per annum. The references to Oudh before the annexation are based upon Sleeman's Tour through Oudh. Anyone indeed, wishing to form a practical and dispassionate estimate of the result of thirty years' British rule, could not do better than, taking the General's diary in his hand and following his footsteps, compare what he himself sees with the descriptions recorded forty years ago by that accurate and impartial observer.