Asiatic NeighboursW. Blackwood and Sons, 1894 - 315 páginas |
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... ment , whatever it was , and when itself in power upsetting as far as possible all that its predecessors in office had done . Those evil days , so wasteful to the Indian Exchequer , so baneful to our interests in Afghanistan , ended ten ...
... ment , whatever it was , and when itself in power upsetting as far as possible all that its predecessors in office had done . Those evil days , so wasteful to the Indian Exchequer , so baneful to our interests in Afghanistan , ended ten ...
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... ment on Western principles means , and the most comprehensive of those minds readily recognise the hopeless unwisdom of the attempt to acclimatise such an exotic as democratic government in India . To govern India for the good of the ...
... ment on Western principles means , and the most comprehensive of those minds readily recognise the hopeless unwisdom of the attempt to acclimatise such an exotic as democratic government in India . To govern India for the good of the ...
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... and are hated partly as successful aliens of a once subject class , and partly as rack - renters . 66 It may be that neither Local nor Supreme Govern- to bureau- ment realises the extent to which our system 16 ASIATIC NEIGHBOURS .
... and are hated partly as successful aliens of a once subject class , and partly as rack - renters . 66 It may be that neither Local nor Supreme Govern- to bureau- ment realises the extent to which our system 16 ASIATIC NEIGHBOURS .
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Septimus Smet Thorburn. to bureau- ment realises the extent to which our system is Tendency working evil amongst the people , and preparing their cracy . minds for the reception of teaching which must some day give rise to active ...
Septimus Smet Thorburn. to bureau- ment realises the extent to which our system is Tendency working evil amongst the people , and preparing their cracy . minds for the reception of teaching which must some day give rise to active ...
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... ment . we are graduates of your Universities , barristers - at- law , pleaders , journalists , and yet we are poor fel- lows . The Bar is already overcrowded , and the The de- mands of Congress- ignorant people won't buy our INDIA ...
... ment . we are graduates of your Universities , barristers - at- law , pleaders , journalists , and yet we are poor fel- lows . The Bar is already overcrowded , and the The de- mands of Congress- ignorant people won't buy our INDIA ...
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