Education:-- _General_.--Deficiencies of the system, 2; effect on the Bengalees, 77; most difficult and most urgent problem in India, 207; four important features of the system, 208; system displays its gravest shortcomings in Bengal, 214; greater elasticity wanted, 236; grievances of Brahmans against Western education, 353-354. _History of System_: Macaulay's Minute (1835), 208-210; Lord Hardinge's Educational Order (1844), 209; influence of Dr. Alexander Duff, 209; Sir Charles Wood's Educational Dispatch (1854),209-210; Education Commission (1882-1883), 212; Public Service Commission (1886-87), 212; Sir Antony MacDonnell's resolution (1889), 229; Government Resolution (March 11, 1904), 229, 263; Conference presided over by Lord Curzon, 229-230. _Primary_, 246-253; number of scholars in Government schools (1854), 210; Mr. Gokhale's resolution for free and compulsory education, 247; Educational Dispatch (1854), 248; Education Commission(1882-83), 248; Government Resolution (1904), 248; present situation, 249; cost of making primary education free, 249; difficulty of finding teachers, 250; Mr. Orange on the aims to be kept in view, 251-252. _Higher_: Universities Bill (1904), 78, 82, 229; Europeans on staff of secondary schools and colleges, 215; the Indian student, 216-221; Dr. Garfield Williams on the Indian student, 217-219; provision of hostels for students, 231; question of raising fees charged for higher education, 234; wastage in Indian Universities, 351-352. _Female_, 252-253; views of Mr. Sharp, 354-355. _Scientific and Technical_: need of encouragement, 235; technical education, 263-267; proposal to establish a Technological College at Cawnpore, 267. _Religious_, 238-245; the Maharajah of Jaipur on the need of religious education, 242. _Service_: total number of Europeans in, 221; effect of rise in the cost of living on the teaching profession, 224; deficiencies of the native teaching staff, 226; pay of teachers, 226-227; effect of Public Service Commission (1886-87) on the native side of the service, 227; need of more and better training colleges for teachers, 232; teachers must be brought into touch with parents, 235-236. _"National" Schools, 241-242. _Vedic System_, 114-115. Education, Minister of (Mr. Harcourt Butler), 233, 237, 264. Elibank, Master of, on the "drain" theory, 355-356. Empire, _status_ of Indians in the, 284. Engineering Colleges, 263. _Evil of Continence, The_, translated into the vernacular, 28. _Examiner_, newspaper, Bombay, 352-353. Executive Councils, reforms in, 171. Explosive Substances Act (1908), 98. Famines, 3; reduction of famine areas, 260. Ferris, Col., conspiracy to murder (1908), 70.