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The Briton in India

1935

The one object of the book is to draw the attention of the English and Indians to the difficulties in the way of and the urgent need for the attainment of this racial equality. [...] but not of the Hindus." While the Hindu religious and social customs of the period thus precluded the possibility of an intimate association between the Europeans and the Hindus the outlook of the Mohammedans for different reasons partook of the same parochial nature. [...] Referring to the attitude of the ruling classes Gibbon says : "The policy of the Emperors and the Serrate as far as it concerned religion was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened and by the habits of the superstitious part of their subjects. [...] While the general result of the English contact with the Hindu and Mohammedan aristocracy was to bring about a better understanding between the two parties the fact that in the Presidency towns of Madras Cacutta and to some extent in Bombay they were thrown more into the society of the servile classes — the butler the gardener the "Hukkabardar." etc. [...] We contemplate with delight and surprise the admirer of Grecian bards and the pupil of the Grecian sages led by his enthusiasm from the banks of the Illyssus to the streams of the Ganges celebrating in strains not unworthy of Pindar the fabulous divinities of India and exploring the sources of the Egyptian and Persian theology and of the tenets of the Ionic and Italic schools of Philosophy
history
Pages
716
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.143827
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xiv T.J. George view
Introduction
1-8 T.J. George view
Chapter I The situation at the beginning of English Connections with India in the Seventeenth and early Part of the Eighteenth Centuries
9-22 T.J. George view
Chapter II The State of Affairs during the Days of Warren Hastings
23-42 T.J. George view
Chapter III Lord Cornwallis: Lord Wellesley
43-69 T.J. George view
Chapter IV Influence of Women
70-92 T.J. George view
Chapter V Missionary Influence
93-116 T.J. George view
Chapter VI Influence of the Increase in Numbers: Military Adventurers—Suez Canal—Industrial Revolution
117-136 T.J. George view
Chapter VII Lord Bentick Educational Reforms: Macaulay’s Influence
137-162 T.J. George view
Chapter VIII Influence of Macaulay
163-185 T.J. George view
Chapter IX (The Indian Mutiny: Absence of a Middle Class: Pliant disposition of the “natives”)
186-220 T.J. George view
Chapter X Defects in the attitude of Superiority based on the Moral Argument
221-246 T.J. George view
Chapter XI Defects in the in moral Argument
247-308 T.J. George view
Chapter XII Defects in the Moral Argument
309-328 T.J. George view
Chapter XIII “Manifestations among the different Classes”
329-354 T.J. George view
Chapter XIV Manifestation of the Spirit among the different Classes
355-378 T.J. George view
Chapter XV Manifestation among the different Classes
379-414 T.J. George view
Chapter XVI Manifestation among the different Classes
415-448 T.J. George view
Chapter XVII Reaction on English Character
449-504 T.J. George view
Chapter XVIII Need for Adjustmeat
505-548 T.J. George view
Chapter XIX Need for Adjustment
549-620 T.J. George view
Chapter XX Need for Adjustment
621-668 T.J. George view
Chapter XXI Conclusion
669-690 T.J. George view
“The Briton in India”—Select Bibliogeaphy
691-702 T.J. George view

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