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... in India , which gives stoutness to the heart and power to the arm of every native in the service of the Government , is the prestige not of Lahore or Calcutta , but of Britain or Delhi , Calcutta or Bombay , but of Britain.
... in India , which gives stoutness to the heart and power to the arm of every native in the service of the Government , is the prestige not of Lahore or Calcutta , but of Britain or Delhi , Calcutta or Bombay , but of Britain.
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... he said . Various causes hide the distances and masses of human life in India . There are the single Government and Law everywhere , the English language and English ways in all the chief towns and cities ; the railways and facilities 43.
... he said . Various causes hide the distances and masses of human life in India . There are the single Government and Law everywhere , the English language and English ways in all the chief towns and cities ; the railways and facilities 43.
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... and the business of the Government , and they would do no work except on their own fields . They felt about it just as a London clerk would feel if called on to work as a black- smith . E Hodge is various in the skill which he brings to.
... and the business of the Government , and they would do no work except on their own fields . They felt about it just as a London clerk would feel if called on to work as a black- smith . E Hodge is various in the skill which he brings to.
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... Government hospitals are getting more patients , but were and are still unpopular with Hodge . The reasons for this are , for one , that there is a nasty echo in the rooms , which are larger than the little huts Hodge is used.
... Government hospitals are getting more patients , but were and are still unpopular with Hodge . The reasons for this are , for one , that there is a nasty echo in the rooms , which are larger than the little huts Hodge is used.
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... Government against them . I say he is supposed to do this , although partly from the incapacity of the landlords , and partly from the growing in- dependence of the tenants - serious inroads on this principle have been made . The ...
... Government against them . I say he is supposed to do this , although partly from the incapacity of the landlords , and partly from the growing in- dependence of the tenants - serious inroads on this principle have been made . The ...
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