...higher " than our own was at no very distant period. " We should look upon India not as a tem" porary possession, but as one which is to be " maintained...prejudices, " and become sufficiently enlightened to frame 36 " a regular government for themselves, and to tf conciuct and preserve it.* We entirely accord in...

...regret but with satisfaction. — " We should look • . * Hamilton's Hindostan, vol. i. Intro. p. 29. upon India not as a temporary possession, but as one...prejudices, and become sufficiently enlightened to frame a regidar Government for themselves, and to conduct and preserve it. Whenever such a time shall arrive,...

...able to govern them" selves than when we found them. " We should look upon India not as a tem" porary possession, but as one which is to be " maintained...prejudices, " and become sufficiently enlightened to frame * Life, vol. ii. p. 174. 93 " a regular government for themselves, and to "conduct and preserve it....

...the character of the people ? la it to be raised, or is it to be lowered ? . . . . " We should look upon India not as a temporary possession, but as one...abandoned most of their superstitions and prejudices, and beconusufficiently enlightened to frame a regular government for themselves, and to conduct and preserve...

...a subject worthy to be pondered by all Anglo-Indian officials at the present time. " We should look upon India not as a temporary possession, but as one which is to be maintained permanently, until the Indians shall, in some future age, have abandoned most of their superstitions and prejudices, and become...

...how often he quotes to me Sir Thomas Munro who had said in 1824 'that the natives in some future age become sufficiently enlightened to frame a regular...government for themselves, and to conduct and preserve it'" (40). Their atypicality is underlined by the fact that she and her husband entertained Indians when...