Indian railways, by an old Indian postmaster [sir W.P. Andrew]. |
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Página 140 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Página 19 - Stores could not to the same extent be required at the various depots, and the loss by decay, and the destruction incidental to the climate, would also be avoided. The number of troops might be diminished in direct proportion to their effectiveness.
Página 19 - ... brief period are considerations which cannot be too highly estimated. Troops could be kept at more distant and healthier stations than at present, and much loss of life from sickness would by this means be spared. Stores...
Página xxii - At first sight, it seems to offer every thing that could be devised, in order to induce to a commercial intercourse almost without limit. There is scarcely one important article of tropical produce which is consumed in this country, either as the raw material of our manufactures, or as an article of daily use, for the production of which India is not as well, or better, adapted than any other country; while its dense and industrious population would seem to offer an illimitable demand for our manufactures....
Página 24 - BACON hath truly said that there are three things which make a nation great and prosperous, — a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and commodities from one place to another.
Página 36 - Khandesh, because the clay roads were impracticable. The introduction of railroads may be easily made to subserve agricultural purposes by the formation of tanks, where ground is required for embankment, and by the conveyance of water along the different lines. Thus irrigation, the sine qua non of farming in the East, might be greatly extended, and the frequently recurring local famines, arising from the want of water, would be averted. The general importance of railways, viewed under this...
Página 11 - I should say, that this mode of railway conveyance has enabled the army (comparatively to the demands made upon it, a very small one) to do the work of a very large one ; you send a battalion of...
Página iv - ... of intelligent natives would freely resort to it ; and, lastly, the religious connexion between the Hindoos and the holy cities of Benares, Gyah, Allahabad, and others, would alone fill the trains with hundreds of the better class of pilgrims. This brings us to consider the extent of religious prejudices. As a native of the land, the writer feels some confidence in stating his opinion that he believes they may be overcome by a few simple arrangements. Let there be three divisions of the people,...
Página xxvi - We may safely pronounce it to be the best text book that we have yet seen of the age which it professes to describe.