British Rule in India Condemned by the British ThemselvesIndian national party, 1915 - 68 pages |
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... present Great Britain is the sovereign power over India ; but the East India Company has disappeared , and , since 1858 , India has been directly under the Bri- tish Crown which is represented by a Viceroy . Thus the external form of ...
... present Great Britain is the sovereign power over India ; but the East India Company has disappeared , and , since 1858 , India has been directly under the Bri- tish Crown which is represented by a Viceroy . Thus the external form of ...
Page 6
... present time . " Possibly since the world began , no investment has ever yielded the profit reaped from the Indian plunder . " And this plunder made the English industrial supremacy possible . But what has been the result of this alien ...
... present time . " Possibly since the world began , no investment has ever yielded the profit reaped from the Indian plunder . " And this plunder made the English industrial supremacy possible . But what has been the result of this alien ...
Page 14
... present surpluses anything like perpetual , with the present army and home establishment ; if they will discard their dangerous ideas of economy at the wrong end , by starving the services and underpaying their Indian officials ; if ...
... present surpluses anything like perpetual , with the present army and home establishment ; if they will discard their dangerous ideas of economy at the wrong end , by starving the services and underpaying their Indian officials ; if ...
Page 18
... present feel themselves to labour with respect to the British Government ? ” A. " Their exclusion from all offices of trust and emolument and from that position in the administration of the country , civil and mili- tary which they ...
... present feel themselves to labour with respect to the British Government ? ” A. " Their exclusion from all offices of trust and emolument and from that position in the administration of the country , civil and mili- tary which they ...
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... present state of extreme poverty and almost slavery , it is not reasonable to expect that any great improvements can flow from them . One of the greatest improvements , however , of which the mind of man is susceptible , have been made ...
... present state of extreme poverty and almost slavery , it is not reasonable to expect that any great improvements can flow from them . One of the greatest improvements , however , of which the mind of man is susceptible , have been made ...
Common terms and phrases
administration assessment Bankruptcy of India benefit Bengal Britain British Government British rule British territory burden cent century civil classes commercial Company's condition cultivation Deccan despotism dition East India economic Empire England English Englishman European evidence exist fact famine famine in India favour foreign former Government of India H. M. Hyndman Hindustan History of India House of Commons impoverishment improvement income increasing India question India under Ripon Indian Government Indian princes industrial J. R. Macdonald John Malcolm labour land revenue Lord Curzon Lord Dalhousie Lord Ripon Madras Marquis of Salisbury means military misgovernment native rule never official peasant peasantry pence poorer poverty present Prosperous British India provinces railways Report ruin rule in India rulers rupee ryot Sir Walter Strickland Sir William Hunter soil subjects suffering taxation trade Viceroy of India W. S. Blunt wealth whole William Digby yield
Popular passages
Page 26 - Had this not been the case, had not such prohibitory duties and decrees existed, the mills of Paisley and Manchester would have been stopped in their outset, and could scarcely have been again set in motion, even by the power of steam.
Page 15 - The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society, and without sympathy with the natives. They have no more social habits with the people, than if they still resided in England; nor indeed any species of intercourse but that which is necessary to making a sudden fortune, with a view to a remote settlement.
Page 49 - The master caste, as was natu.ral, broke loose from all restraint, and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check ; imperfect, indeed, and liable to gross abuse, but still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those of resistance ; when fear itself...
Page 51 - It must give pain to an Englishman to have reason to think that since the accession of the Company to the Dewani the condition of the people of this country has been worse than it was before, and yet I am afraid the fact is undoubted....
Page 4 - The government of a people by itself has a meaning and a reality ; but such a thing as government of one people by another does not and cannot exist.
Page 14 - The fundamental principle of the English had been to make the whole Indian nation subservient, in every possible way, to the interests and benefits of themselves. They have been taxed to the utmost limit; every successive Province, as it has fallen into our possession, has been made a field for higher exaction; and it has always been our boast how greatly we have raised the revenue above that which the native rulers were able to extort. The Indians have been excluded from every honour, dignity, or...
Page 13 - We all know that these claims and expectations never can or will be fulfilled. We have had to choose between prohibiting them and cheating them, and we have chosen the least straightforward course. The application to natives of the competitive examination system as conducted in England, and the recent reduction in the age at which candidates can compete, are all so many deliberate and transparent subterfuges for stultifying the Act and reducing it to a dead letter.
Page 65 - No one has ever attempted to contradict the fact that the condition of the Bengal peasantry is almost as wretched and degraded as it is possible to conceive — living in the most miserable hovels, scarcely fit for a dog-kennel, covered with tattered rags, and unable, in too many instances, to procure more than a single meal a-day for himself and family. The Bengal ryot knows nothing of the most ordinary comforts of life.
Page 13 - The injury is exaggerated in the case of India where so much of the revenue is exported without a direct equivalent. As India must be bled, the lancet should be directed to the parts where the blood is congested, or at least sufficient, not to those which are already feeble from the want of it.
Page 17 - Whatever allowance we may make for the increased industry of the subjects of the State, owing to the enhanced demand for the produce of it (supposing the demand to be enhanced), there is reason to conclude that the benefits are more than counterbalanced by evils inseparable from the system of the remote foreign dominion.