Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 10

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ............................................................................. vii Dramatis Personae ............................................................................ ix List of Illustrations ............................................................................ x Florence Nightingale: A Précis of Her Life ..................................... xi Introduction to Volume 10 ............................................................... 1 Health and Social Change in India ................................................... 7 Key to Editing .................................................................................... 19 Implementing Sanitary Reform ....................................................... 23 Memorandum on Measures, 1868 ......................................................... 52 ‘‘Introductory Memorandum,’’ 1869 ................................................ 73 Viceroyalty of Lord Mayo, 1869-72 .................................................... 83 Viceroyalty of Lord Northbrook, 1872-76 ......................................... 121 Viceroyalty of Lord Lytton, 1876-80 .................................................. 135 Gladstone, Fawcett and Indian Finance ............................................ 151 The Native Army Hospital Corps ...................................................... 173 Changes in and Later Work of the Sanitary Commissions ................. 182 Village and Town Sanitation ............................................................ 231 ‘‘Letter to the Bengal Social Science Association,’’ 1870 ................... 233 ‘‘On Indian Sanitation,’’ 1870 .......................................................... 235 ‘‘Sanitary Progress in India,’’ 1870 ................................................... 244 ‘‘Observations on Sanitary Progress,’’ 1872 ...................................... 258 ‘‘A Missionary Health Officer for India,’’ 1879 ................................. 261 The Bombay Village Sanitation Bill, 1885 ......................................... 311 ‘‘Village Sanitation,’’ 1887 ............................................................... 321 Viceroyalty of Lord Dufferin, 1885-88 ............................................... 326 Viceroyalty of Lord Lansdowne, 1888-94 ........................................... 340 ‘‘Village Sanitation in India,’’ 1889 ................................................... 353 ‘‘Sanitation in India,’’ February 1891 ............................................... 357 ‘‘Sanitation in India,’’ December 1891 ............................................. 362 / v ‘‘Letter to Lord Cross,’’ 1892 ........................................................... 366 ‘‘Health Lectures for Indian Villages,’’ 1893 ..................................... 375 ‘‘Village Sanitation in India,’’ 1894 ................................................... 380 ‘‘Health Missioners for Rural India,’’ 1896 ....................................... 388 Land Tenure and Rent Reform ....................................................... 393 ‘‘The Zemindar, the Sun and the Watering Pot,’’ 1874 ...................... 401 ‘‘The United Empire and the Indian Peasant,’’ 1878 ........................ 487 ‘‘Indian Letters,’’ 1878-82 ................................................................ 500 ‘‘The Dumb Shall Speak and the Deaf Shall Hear,’’ 1883 .................. 548 ‘‘The Bengal Tenancy Bill,’’ 1883 ..................................................... 598 Reform in Credit, Co-operatives, Education and Agriculture ....... 621 Ryots’ Banks and Co-operatives ........................................................ 621 ‘‘Letter on Co-operation in India,’’ 1879 .......................................... 627 ‘‘Can We Educate Education,’’ 1879 ................................................. 633 Education, Agriculture and Public Works ......................................... 676 The Condition of Women in India .................................................. 717 Child Marriage: The Rukhmabai Case .............................................. 774 ‘‘Introduction’’ to Behramji H. Malabari, 1892 ................................. 777 Later Efforts on Nursing in India ..................................................... 779 Social and Political Evolution .......................................................... 797 The Ilbert Bill ................................................................................. 799 Indian Society and Culture in Transition .......................................... 806 ‘‘Our Indian Stewardship,’’ 1883 ...................................................... 818 Towards Self-Government and Independence .................................. 846 Nightingale’s Last Work on India and a Retrospective .................. 879 Epilogue: Nightingale’s Achievements on India ................................ 890 Appendix A: Biographical Sketches ................................................ 903 Lord Ripon (1827-1909) .................................................................. 903 (Dame) Mary Scharlieb (1845-1930) ................................................ 905 Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) ......................................................... 907 Sir William Wedderburn (1838-1918) ............................................... 908 Appendix B: British Officials in Nightingale’s Time ...................... 910 Appendix C: Spelling of Indian Place Names ................................. 919 Glossary ............................................................................................. 921 Bibliography ...................................................................................... 925 Index .................................................................................................. 931 vi / Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India ...