on, 240, 241;
insatiable appetite for journalistic work, 241;
personal account of his official duties, 242;
his estimate of Indian Civil servants, 243;
his description of life in Calcutta, 244;
friendships formed, 245;
personal nature of his Indian story, 241, 242;
sources from which it has been culled, 246_n_;
his official work in India, 246;
his views on the Penal Code, 247;
Fitzjames and the initiation and development of legislation in
India, 249, 250;
on the framing of a code, 250;
nature of his task, 252;
his Act consolidating the Bengal Criminal Law (1871), 254;
the Punjab Civil Code, 255, 256;
the Punjab Land Revenue Act (1871), 256-258, 277;
the Criminal Tribes Act, 258, 259, 283;
the Native Marriages Act (1872), 260-266, 277;
his share in amending the Penal Code, 266, 267;
interest in the law relating to Seditious Libels, 267;
his share in amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, 268-270, 277;
his views on the Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure,
270, 278;
his treatment of the Evidence Act, 271-275;
his appreciation of the Limitation of Suits Act, 275, 276, 278;
revision of the Contract Act, 276, 277;
his Bills on Hindoo wills and oaths, 277;
summary of the results of his official labours, 277, 278;
Sir C. P. Ilbert and other critics on his legislation, 279;
his intellectual fitness for the work, 279-282;
the special principles of Indian legislation, 282;
as expounded in Lord Mayo's 'Life,' 282-289;
as given in his 'Minute on the Administration of British India,'
289-291;
his account of Lord Mayo's work, his murder, State ceremonial, and
trial of the murderer, 291-296;
views on the prosecution and sentences of the Kookas sect, 296,
297;
last attendance at Legislative Council, 297

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during voyage to England, 298;
article on 'May Meetings,' 299;
educational value of Indian experience, 299;
arrival in England and meetings with old friends, 300;
death of his uncle Henry and close of his mother's life, 300, 301;
return to professional career, 301;
his hopes concerning codification, 302, 305, 306;
position in intellectual society, 302;
appearance at the Old Bailey, 302;
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