British Rule in India: Condemned by the British ThemselvesIndian National Party, 1915 - 68 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
administration assessment Bankruptcy of India benefit Bengal Britain British Government British rule British territory burden cent century civil classes commercial Company 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 ryot Sir Walter Strickland Sir William Hunter soil subjects suffering taxation trade Viceroy of India W. S. Blunt wealth whole William Digby yield
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 24 - 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 47 - The master caste, as was natural, 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 58 - As one of our Christians said, ' If we can eat food once in two days, we will not ask for more.' " ' In my own missionary experience I once carefully investigated the earnings of a congregation of three hundred, and found the average amounted to LESS THAN A FARTHING A HEAD PER DAY. They did not live ; they eked out an existence. I have been in huts where the people were living on carrion.
Seite 61 - I conscientiously believe that under no Government whatever, Hindu or Mahomedan, professing to be actuated by law, was any system so subversive of the prosperity of the people at large as that which has marked our administration.
Seite 15 - ... be observed auctioneering ambassadors and trading generals ; — and thus we saw a revolution brought about by affidavits ; an army employed in executing an arrest ; a town besieged on a note of hand ; a prince dethroned for the balance of an account. Thus it was they exhibited a government which united the mock majesty of a bloody sceptre and the little traffic of a merchant's counting-house, wielding a truncheon with one hand, and picking a pocket with the other.
Seite 24 - 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. British goods were forced upon her without paying any duty, and the foreign manufacturer employed the arm of political injustice to keep down and ultimately strangle a competitor with whom he could not have contended on equal...
Seite 24 - It was stated in evidence [in 1813] that the cotton and silk goods of India up to the period could be sold for a profit in the British market at a price from 50 to 60 per cent. lower than those fabricated in England.