 | Thomas R. Metcalf - 1997 - 264 pages
...preservation of the people of India through all the revolutions and changes which they have suffered, and is in a high degree conducive to their happiness, and...to the enjoyment of a great portion of freedom and independence.4 As a Company official, Metcalfe's objectives were in large part fiscal and administrative.... | |
 | Anand A. Yang - 1999 - 332 pages
...preservation of the people of India through all the revolutions and changes which they have suffered, and is in a high degree conducive to their happiness, and...enjoyment of a great portion of freedom and independence. 14 From such stirrings in the pages of early-nineteenth-century administrative reports, where the idea... | |
 | Romesh Chunder Dutt - 2000 - 466 pages
...preservation of the people of India through all revolutions and changes which they have suffered, and it is in a high degree conducive to their happiness and...enjoyment of a great portion of freedom and independence. I wish, therefore, that the Village Constitutions may never be disturbed, and I dread everything that... | |
 | David Bills - 2005 - 506 pages
...preservation of the people of India, through all the revolutions and changes which they have suffered, and is in a high degree conducive to their happiness, and to the enjoyment of. . . freedom and independence. This image of village "republics" was more or less retained by scholars... | |
 | Anwar Shah - 2006 - 492 pages
...preservation of the peoples of India, through all the revolutions and changes which they have suffered, and is in a high degree conducive to their happiness, and...enjoyment of a great portion of freedom and independence. (Mookerji 1958, p. 2) Subsequently, Sir George Birdwood echoed that same expression: India has undergone... | |
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This union of the village communities, each one forming a separate little state in itself, has, I conceive, contributed more than any other cause to the preservation of the people of India, through all the revolutions and changes which they have suffered,... 
