The Last Days of the Company: a Source Book of Indian History, 1818-1858, Volume 2G. Bell, 1921 |
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... tion in which I hold the general merit and character of your servants . Source .- ( ii ) " Official Writings of Mountstuart Elphinstone . " Edited by G. W. Forrest . ( Richard Bentley & Son . ) Mountstuart Elphinstone's success as an ...
... tion in which I hold the general merit and character of your servants . Source .- ( ii ) " Official Writings of Mountstuart Elphinstone . " Edited by G. W. Forrest . ( Richard Bentley & Son . ) Mountstuart Elphinstone's success as an ...
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... tion , to maintain their influence , was one of Mr. Elphinstone's first cares . He saw that the nobles of the Deccan were not , like the chiefs of a Muhammadan Government , foreigners to the people , but they were of the same nation and ...
... tion , to maintain their influence , was one of Mr. Elphinstone's first cares . He saw that the nobles of the Deccan were not , like the chiefs of a Muhammadan Government , foreigners to the people , but they were of the same nation and ...
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... tion of justice , Mr. Elphinstone refrained from any hasty intro- duction of English machinery and agency , for his knowledge of the people taught him that the state of society and civilisation which pervades the many millions of India ...
... tion of justice , Mr. Elphinstone refrained from any hasty intro- duction of English machinery and agency , for his knowledge of the people taught him that the state of society and civilisation which pervades the many millions of India ...
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... tion of the native inhabitants . ” His views on the subject of education , as being those of the leading Anglicist of the time , are given in a later chapter . The bitter hostility which certain missionaries bore towards him did not ...
... tion of the native inhabitants . ” His views on the subject of education , as being those of the leading Anglicist of the time , are given in a later chapter . The bitter hostility which certain missionaries bore towards him did not ...
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... tion of justice ; and would be productive of a great saving in the expenses of the Indian Government . After deliberation the British Parliament proceeded to action , and action of a most important kind . The Charter Act of 1833 marks a ...
... tion of justice ; and would be productive of a great saving in the expenses of the Indian Government . After deliberation the British Parliament proceeded to action , and action of a most important kind . The Charter Act of 1833 marks a ...
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administration appointed authority Bengal Bengal Presidency Bombay British India Calcutta character Charter Act civil servants Civil Service Commissioners Company's servants consideration Court of Directors desire despatch direct duties East India Company Elphinstone Empire England English established European exercise experience feelings Fort William Government of India Governor Governor-General in Council Haileybury Hindu Honourable important improvement Indian Government Indian policy instruction J. W. Kaye judges judicial justice knowledge language learning legislative Legislature literature Lord Cornwallis Lord Macaulay Lord William Bentinck Macaulay Madras Majesty's ment Minister moral Mountstuart Elphinstone Mufassal Munsifs necessary object opinion Parliament passed persons Petitioners practice Presidency Principal Sádr Amíns principles proposed Provinces Ram Mohan Roy reform regulations respect responsibility revenue rule rulers rupees Sádr Díwání Adálat Sanskrit Sati Subordinate Governments superintendence Supreme Court Supreme Government territories Thomas Munro Thugs tion vernacular
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Página 122 - His Lordship in council directs, that all the funds which these reforms will leave at the disposal of the committee be henceforth employed in imparting to the native population a knowledge of English literature and science, through the medium of the English language...
Página 122 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Página 113 - Sanscrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...
Página 114 - The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which, by universal confession, there are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our own...
Página 120 - We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern — a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.
Página 18 - ... shall be reviled, or slightingly or contemptuously spoken of, or alluded to, either in preaching, praying, or in the hymns, or other mode of worship that may be delivered or used in the said messuage or building ; And that no sermon, preaching, discourse, prayer or hymn be delivered, made or used in such worship, but such as have a tendency to the promotion of the contemplation of the Authoi and Preserver of the Universe...
Página 18 - ... a place of public meeting, of all sorts and descriptions of people, without distinction, as shall behave and conduct themselves in an orderly, sober, and devout manner; For the worship and adoration of the Eternal, Unsearchable, and Immutable Being, who is the Author and Preserver of the Universe...
Página 103 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature, and the encouragement of the learned natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British territories in India...
Página 179 - Except for preventing or repelling actual invasion of Her Majesty's Indian Possessions, or under other sudden and urgent necessity, the revenues of India shall not, without the consent of both Houses of Parliament, be applicable to defray the expenses of any military operation carried on beyond the external frontiers of such p issessions by Her Majesty's forces charged upon such revenues.
Página 175 - State, to conduct the business transacted in the United Kingdom in relation to the government of and the correspondence with India...