 | 1880 - 1132 pages
...can be expected among men who, in the military line, cannot attain to any rank above that of subadar, where they are as much below an ensign as an ensign...from all share of the government of their country as in British India. Again, in 1824:— With what grace can we talk of our paternal government, if we... | |
 | 350 pages
...which Sir Thomas Munro had written: "there is perhaps no example of any conquest in which the native have been so completely excluded from all share of the government of their country as in British India." (NB Sir Thomas was not at all a leftwinger). Munro was pleading for the employment... | |
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The consequence, therefore, of the conquest of India by the British arms would be, in place of raising, to debase the whole people. There is perhaps no example of any conquest in which the Natives have been so completely excluded from all share of the... 
