New India: Or, India in TransitionLondon, 1907 - 301 páginas |
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New India: Or India in Transition Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton,Sir Henry Cotton Vista completa - 1885 |
Términos y frases comunes
administration afford agitation agricultural Anglo-Indian aspirations attitude Bengal body Bombay Brahmin Brahmoism British Government Calcutta capital caste character Christianity Civil Service civilisation Colonies constitution Council cultivators demand desire difficulty direction district doubt duties educated classes effect Empire encourage England English education Englishmen established European executive exercise existence favour foreign Government of India Governor hands Hindoo Hindooism honour increased independence Indian Civil Service Indian community Indian gentlemen Indian Government Indian National Indian National Congress indigenous industry influence interests judicial labour land landlords less Lord Curzon Lord Lytton Lord Ripon Lord William Bentinck loyalty Madras magistrate ment missionary moral movement National Congress natives of India natural never non-official official organisation party patriotic political population position practical prejudice present principles progress province public opinion religious respect revenue Russia scheme self-governing Colonies self-government sentiment social spirit sympathy tendency Theosophy tion
Pasajes populares
Página 218 - The destinies of our Indian empire are covered with thick darkness. It is difficult to form any conjecture as to the fate reserved for a state which resembles no other in history, and which forms by itself a separate class of political phenomena. The laws which regulate its growth and its decay are still unknown to us. It may be that the public mind of India may expand under our system till it has outgrown that system ; that by good government we may educate our subjects into a capacity for better...
Página 219 - To have found a great people sunk in the lowest depths of slavery and superstition, to have so ruled them as to have made them desirous and capable of all the privileges of citizens, would indeed be a title to glory all our own.
Página 117 - There, is to be found an ancient and venerable priesthood, the depository of their laws, learning, and history, the guides of the people whilst living, and their consolation in death; a nobility of great antiquity and renown; a multitude of cities, not exceeded in population and trade by those of the first class in Europe; merchants and bankers, individual houses of whom have once vied in capital with the bank of England...
Página 196 - No Native of the said Territories, nor any natural-born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said Company.
Página 63 - Wherever the demoralizing effect of the situation is not in a most remarkable degree corrected by the personal character of the individual, they think the people of the country mere dirt under their feet...
Página 62 - Now if there be a fact to which all experience testifies, it is that, when a country holds another in subjection, the individuals of the ruling people who resort to the foreign country to make their fortunes are of all others those who most need to be held under powerful restraint.
Página 117 - This multitude of men does not consist of an abject and barbarous populace ; much less of gangs of savages, like the Guaranies and Chiquitos, who wander on the waste borders of the river of Amazons, or the Plate ; but a people for ages civilized and cultivated; cultivated by all the arts of polished life, whilst we were yet in the woods.
Página 62 - ... individuals of the ruling people who resort to the foreign country to make their fortunes are, of all others, those who most need to be held under powerful restraint. They are always one of the chief difficulties of the Government. Armed with the prestige, and filled with the scornful overbearingness of the conquering nation, they have the feelings inspired by absolute power without its sense of responsibility.
Página 105 - Had India been independent, she would have retaliated, would have imposed prohibitive duties upon British goods, and would thus have preserved her own productive industry from annihilation. This act of self-defence was not permitted her; she was at the mercy of the stranger.
Página 143 - It is not primarily, with a view to improvement in administration that this measure is put forward and supported. It is chiefly desirable as an instrument of political and popular education.