The Political Future of India: A Study of the Aspirations of Educated Indians, a Prize EssayHodder and Stoughton, 1908 - 328 pàgines |
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The Political Future of India: A Study of the Aspirations of Educated ... Hormasji Peroshaw Mody Visualització completa - 1908 |
The Political Future of India: A Study of the Aspirations of Educated ... Hormasji Peroshaw Mody Visualització completa - 1908 |
POLITICAL FUTURE OF INDIA A ST H. P. (Hormasji Peroshaw) B. 1881 Mody,Robert Sir Laidlaw, 1856-1915,Pseud Action Front Previsualització no disponible - 2016 |
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Pàgina 129 - And it is our further will that, so far as may be, our subjects, of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to offices in our service, the duties of which they may be qualified, by their education, ability, and integrity, duly to discharge.
Pàgina 114 - It would be on the most selfish view of the case, far better for us that the people of India were wellgoverned and independent of us, than ill-governed and subject to us...
Pàgina 115 - The question who shall have supreme rule in India is, by the laws of right, an Indian question, and those laws of right are from day to day growing into laws of fact. Our title to be there depends on a first condition, that our being there is profitable to the Indian nation, and on a second condition, that we can make them see and understand it to be profitable.
Pàgina 129 - No Native of the said Territories, nor any natural-born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment under the said Company.
Pàgina 98 - The people of India are quite capable of administering their own affairs, and the municipal feeling is deeply rooted in them. The village communities, each of which is a little republic, are the most abiding of Indian institutions. Holding the position we do in India, every view of duty and policy should induce us to leave as much as possible of the business of the country to be done by the people.
Pàgina 107 - We should try to become one in heart and soul and act in unison; if united, we can support each other, if not, the effect of one against the other will tend to the destruction and downfall of both.
Pàgina 66 - The supposed rivalry,' says the writer, ' between Mussulmans and Hindus is a convenient decoy to distract attention and to defer the day of reform. I do not wish to affirm that there is no antagonism between the adherents of the two faiths, but I do most positively assert that the antagonism has been grossly exaggerated. Every municipal improvement and charitable work finds members of the two faiths working together and subscribing funds to carry it out. Every political paper in the country finds...
Pàgina 36 - Indian tongues — not dialects, mind you— of which 1 8 are spoken by more than a million persons — while many of them are still further separated from each other by discordant prejudices, by conflicting social usages, and even antagonistic material interests. Perhaps the most patent peculiarity of our Indian ' Cosmos ' is its division into two mighty political communities — the Hindus, numbering 190...
Pàgina 133 - Englishmen, for the reason that they possess partly by heredity, partly by up-bringing, and partly by education, the knowledge of the principles of Government, the habits of mind, and the vigour of character, which are essential for the task, and that, the rule of India being a British rule, and any other rule being in the circumstances of the case impossible, the tone and standard should be set by those who have created and are responsible for it.
Pàgina 67 - ... citizens of one country, subordinate to one power, subject to one supreme Legislature, taxed by one authority, influenced for weal or woe by one system of administration, urged by like impulses to secure like rights and to be relieved of like burdens.