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Lord Curzon in India. Being A Selection from His Speeches as Viceroy & Governor-General of India 1898-1905 with Explanatory Notes and an Index and with an Introduction by Sir Thomas Raleigh

1906

Go to the cotton-mills of Cawnpore and Jubbulpore and Lahore where the tents are made ; to the factories where the harness and saddlery are turned out ; to the carriage-builders where the landaus and victorias are being built by the hundred ; to the carpet-factories where the durries and rugs are being woven ; to the furniture-makers where the camp equipage is manufactured. [...] He has succeeded to a throne not only the most illustrious but the most stable in the world; and ill-informed would be the critic who would deny that not the least of the bases of its security—nay I think a principal condition of its strength—is the possession of the Indian Empire and the faithful attachment and service of His Majesty's Indian people. [...] The scales of isolation and prejudice and distrust fell from their eyes and from the Arab sheikhs of Aden on the west to the Shan chiefs of the Mekong on the borders of China they felt the thrill of a common loyalty and the inspiration of a single aim. [...] It is very characteristic of the enlightenment and generosity of His Highness and the opening which will thus be afforded to the accomplishments and abilities of the young men who have studied in this College even though it does not serve to remind them in the future of the occasion of the foundation of the prize will at any rate be a valuable incentive to their own studies. [...] The landmarks of the reaction against this old system which may now be said to have disappeared and of the gradual and successful installation of its successor have been Lord Macaulay's Minute of 1835 the Despatch of the Court of Directors of July 1854 the Report of the Education Commission of 1882-83 and a series of Resolutions of the Government of India the last of which was that issued b
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Pages
356
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.141881
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Frontmatter
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Delhi Coronation Durbar
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Education
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Eurasians
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Famine
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Foreign Affairs
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Frontier Policy
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Game Preservation
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Historical Memorials
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Irrigation
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Military Administration
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Mohammedans
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National Development
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Persian Gulf
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Plague
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Planters
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Queen Victoria Memorial
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Temperance
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Valedictory
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Index
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Catalogue of Macmillan’s Colonial Library of Copyright Books
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