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Kashmir: Its New Silk Industry: With Some Account of Its Natural History ... - Page 44
by Sir Thomas Wardle - 1904 - 363 pages
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Lord Curzon in India: Being a Selection from His Speeches as ..., Volume 1

Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1906 - 666 pages
...one of his main functions in my view should be to train up natives of the State to succeed him ; for there is no spectacle which finds less favour in my...than that of a cluster of Europeans settling down upon a Native State and sucking from it the moisture which ought to give sustenance to its own people....
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New India: Or, India in Transition

Sir Henry Cotton - 1907 - 328 pages
...T~ Lord Curzon very forcibly said, in a speech -delivered by him in November 1902, at Jaipore: 11 ' There is no spectacle which finds less favour in my...than that of a cluster of Europeans settling down upon a Native State and sucking from it the moisture which ought to give sustenance to its own people/...
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New India: Or, India in Transition, by

Henry Cotton - 1907 - 336 pages
...eyes or which I have done more to discourage than that of a cluster of Europeans settling down upon a Native State and sucking from it the moisture which ought to give sustenance to its own peopfe/'M Rein acu tetigisti, I exclaim ; but I adcl, in the words of the same old satirist, Mutato...
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British Rule in India: Condemned by the British Themselves

Indian National Party - 1915 - 76 pages
...uttered to the ear." III. Lord Curzon, former Viceroy of India, in n speech at Jaipur in November 1902. "There is no spectacle which finds less favour in...than that of a cluster of Europeans settling down upon a Native State and sucking from it the moisture which ought to give sustenance to its own people."...
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Silk and Empire

Brenda M. King - 2005 - 240 pages
...private enterprise. He agreed with Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India who emphatically argued thus: 'There is no spectacle which finds less favour in...cluster of Europeans settling down on a Native State and suckering from it the moisture which ought to give sustenance to its own people.'31 Wardle's efforts...
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