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About the book:-This book cannot lay claim to be in any so if an exhaustive survey of the crime committed year by year in India. The book deals solely with modern crime all reference to the notorious criminal organizations of a vanished age such as the thags has been omitted and for the sake of simplicity the headings and contents of the first three chapters have been based on the classification followed in modern Indian statistics and reports. The fourth chapters deals briefly with the history and present features of prostitution in India, which though it cannot be properly described as a criminal offence is nevertheless clodely connected with crime and police work. In the fifth chapters author has included a variety of miscellaneous matters which are more or less directly connected with crime in India. About the author:-Stephen Meredyth Edwardes, at the age of fiftyfour years, which took place at Fielden, near Boxmoor, is a loss to the study of Indian history and archaeology deeply to be deplored. Mr. Edwardes was a son of the Rev. Stephen Edwardes, fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and was educated at Eton and at Christ Church. In 1894 he passed into the Indian Civil Service, and was posted to the Bombay Presidency. The intimate acquaintance with conditions among the native population of the city which he soon acquired, and his profound knowledge of its history, on which he was widely recognised as the foremost authority, were employed to full advantage in his census volume of 1901, the additional volumes of the “Gazetteer” which he compiled between 1906 and 1910, and his “Rise of Bombay” and “Byways of Bombay.” This knowledge, in combination with his personal qualities, made him eminently fitted for the post of Commissioner of Police, to which he was appointed in 1910. His well-balanced and admirably judicious “Crime in India,”published in 1925, showed that no one could have been better qualified to represent India at the Geneva conference on traffic in women and children which he attended in 1921. The Title 'CRIME IN INDIA: A Brief Review of the more Important Offences included in the A inual Criminal Returns with Chapters on Prostitution & Miscellaneous Malters written/authored/edited by S. M. EDWARDES', published in the year 2021. The ISBN 9788121260176 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 179 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. . Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-