COMPLICATIONS IN ADMINISTRATION

235 it is otherwise superfluous to tell over again an oft- repeated story. The system of administration set up by the Act of 1773 embodied the first attempt at giving some definite and recognizable form to the vague and arbitrary ruler- KATKARI NATIVES ON THE WESTERN GHATS. ship that had devolved upon the Company. From that date forward, this outline of Anglo-Indian government was gradually filled in. The administrative centre was now at any rate distinctly located at Calcutta with the Governor-General as its acknowledged head, invested with the chief control of the foreign relations of the three Presidencies, and deriving his authority from a statute of the English Parliament. Thus far the