 No scheme of government," says Mr. Mill, " can happily conduce to the ends of government, unless it is adapted to the state of the people for whose use it is intended. ... If the mistake in regard to Hindu society, committed by the British nation and...  The History of British India - Pàgina 149per James Mill - 1840Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1818 - 706 pàgines
...the mistake in regard to Hindu society, committed by the British nation and the British government, be very great ; if they have conceived the Hindus...people the mark aimed at should not have been wrong." Mr. Mio has, we think, successfully demonstrated, not only that the Hindus are at present in a low... | |
 | 1818 - 708 pàgines
...the mistake in regard to Hindu society, committed by the British nation and the British government, be very great ; if they have conceived the Hindus...people the mark aimed at should not have been wrong." Mr. Mill has, we think, successfully demonstrated, not only that the Hindus are at present in a low... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 pàgines
...reasonings, that the nationsof India, so far from having attained the elevation assigned to them, ' have in reality made but a few of the earliest steps ' in the progress to civilization.' In noticing the gratuitous assumption, that, although the present condition of the Hindus is little... | |
 | Stefan Collini, Donald Winch, John Burrow - 1983 - 404 pàgines
...the History was to prove that the British government of India could be guilty of fundamental error: 'if they have conceived the Hindus to be a people...made but a few of the earliest steps in the progress of civilization, it is impossible that in many of the measures pursued for the government of that people,... | |
 | Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler - 1997 - 488 pàgines
...the mistake in regard to Hindu society, committed by the British nation, and the British government, be very great; if they have conceived the Hindus to...the mark aimed at should not have been wrong. The political exclusion of India is clearly informed by the particulars in which it finds itself embedded.... | |
 | Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1997 - 254 pàgines
...the onerous responsibility of freeing the British mind from the misconception that the Hindus have a "high civilization, while they have in reality made...the earliest steps in the progress to civilization". Otherwise on the basis of incorrect ideas the policies adopted by the government, Mill apprehends,... | |
 | Thomas R. Metcalf - 1997 - 264 pàgines
...possess, and never had possessed, 'a high state of civilization'. They were rather a 'rude' people who had made 'but a few of the earliest steps in the progress to civilization'. There existed in India, he wrote, a 'hideous state of society', inferior even to that of the European... | |
 | Uday Singh Mehta - 1999 - 250 pàgines
...the mistake in regard to Hindu society, committed by the British nation, and the British government, be very great; if they have conceived the Hindus to...people, the mark aimed at should not have been wrong. 79 The political exclusion of India is clearly informed by the particulars in which it finds itself... | |
 | Uday Singh Mehta - 1999 - 250 pàgines
...the mistake in regard to Hindu society, committed by the British nation, and the British government, be very great; if they have conceived the Hindus to...that people, the mark aimed at should not have been wrong.12 Whatever satisfaction ethnographic "curiosity" may get from knowing the precise location of... | |
 | Gerrit de Vylder - 2006 - 300 pàgines
...India", gepubliceerd in l 8 l 7, de vroegere ambtenaren van de East India Company "for having taken Hindus to be a people of high civilization, while...made but a few of the earliest steps in the progress of civilization" (Sen, 2005, p. l 47). Wanneer de Duitse historicus Leopold VON RANKE (l795-l886) vanaf... | |
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