Development of resources, education, and finance, with the appendix supplying figures for prices, revenue and expenditure, and the expense of irregular troops. The Punjab was "the largest and most powerful state to be absorbed by the Company since the final defeat of the Marathas in 18r8" (ODNB). The Court of Directors of the Company wrote to the governor-general, Lord Dalhousie, on 26 October 1853, remarking on their "high satisfaction with which we have read this record of a wise and eminently successful administration", and noting that they "approve your intention of printing and publishing the report for general information" (reprinted in Edwin Arnold, The Marquis of Dalhousie's Administration in India (1862), vol. I, pp. 404-05). These reports were published bi-annually up until 1859, after which they were issued yearly. An online search of institutional libraries shows one copy only, at Oxford. The book discusses the history of contact between two types of education systems; English and Punjabi. The author highlights the failure of the British in preserving the original education system of Punjab, despite the benefit of experience with other provinces. The indigenous education of Punjab was crippled, checked, and was nearly destroyed; how opportunities for its healthy revival were either neglected or perverted; and how, far beyond the blame attaching to individuals, British system stands convicted of worse than a failure. The author discusses the education system of Punjab and how everybody used to go to school. Every Mosque, Temple or Gurudwara had a school attached to it and was supported by Lahore Darbar. There were over 330,000 pupils in the schools while Punjab was ruled by Lahore Darbar, and there were just 190,000 in 1883, under British. The book describes the rich education system of Punjab before annexation. The author confesses that British have changed everything. It further describes how the annexation disturbed the minds of believers in Providence, and all that was respectable kept, as much as possible, aloof from the invader, just as the best Englishmen would not be the first to seek favour of a foreign conqueror. At the same time, the single-mindedness of the English officials in the Punjab, and the religious earnestness destroyed the education system of Punjab.