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India for the Indians - And for England

1885

It would be unfair not to recognise the extreme pains bestowed on the work ; the amplitude of the stores which throw light on the past as well as suggest thoughts for the future; the general fairness of the statements with one or two exceptions to be noticed ; the arrangement of copious statistical tables about rations areas populatioes and deatri..es and the moral earnestness and [...] If two or three only of the Political Apostles of the day whose power to educate and influence the mass of their countrymen is beyond question would but master the Indian problem themselves become tranfused with a sense of the magnitude of the issues at stake and the possibility of a remedy being found and would let their imagination be fired and their reason stirred —then the time would [...] Need for change of Attitude towards the Indian Princes—The Creation of the Council of the Empire on January I i877— The Council the One Good Thing of the Delhi Assemblage - -The Council to be made the germ of a Re-constituted and Representatively.governed India—Duties which might be undertaken by such a Council—Who should be Members Thereof ?—Provincial Parliaments for the Presidencies and Provin [...] It is doubtful whether save for the mischance of war—and after all even in the days of anarchy war was exceptional — the position of the average Indian toiler in what are now British Provinces was not better during the turmoil of the eighteenth century than it is in the peace of the nineteenth century: thanks to our good intentions and poor performances. [...] He comes straight from the Camp at Delhi where at great expense and at the occasion of much inconvenience the Viceroy gathered the Princes the Maharajahs and Rajahs the Governors the Lieutenant-Governors in imitation of the assemblage called by Darius the Assyrian ; while the pageantry was preparing and the pomp was proceeding in Madras alone one thousand people were perishing for want of f
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Pages
300
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145715
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxxvii William Digby view
Part I. Some Fruits of British Rule
i-126 William Digby view
Part II. Thirty Years’ Administration in an Indian State
127-198 William Digby view
Part III. An Enquiry as to the Possible Remedy
199-250 William Digby view
Part IV. The Outlook
251-261 William Digby view

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