England and India. A Record of Progress During a Hundred Years. 1785-1885

And alohg with the story of extension and consolidation of the British Empire the still more instructive story of social moral and intelectual progress and of the advancement of the people in influence and power is vividly brought to our min& by the great festival of the pxesent year a festival"ENGPAND AND INDIA 'uhrque in the history of England a festival of the completion of a sixty re [...] He deposed the reigning prince of Tanjore and placed a rival on the throne on the codition of traisferring the entire administration to the British ! And on the death of the Nawab of the Carnatic he allowed one of the rival heirs to succeed ono condition of a similar transfer. [...].13ut they retained the conquests while they disapproved of the wars and Wellesley replied to thin with cutting irony : The general fame of your equity and magnanimity would have precluded any supposition that in condemning the justice of our.cause you would retain the fruits of our success or enjoy the benefits of the peace while you repudiated the necessity and the policy of the wgr: Wellesl [...] The power of the Mahrattas who were virtually the masters of India Rn about a hundred years from the time of the decline of the Moguls was thus effectually crushed ; henceforth the English had no rivals in India At of the Sutlej. [...] The same spirit of reform and the same desire to promote the happiness of the people marked the policy of England and of India during this progressive age ; and the noble and liberal-minded statesmen who guided the destinies of England during this age worked side by 'side With statemen equally great and large-hearted wrho ruled the destinies of India.