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India, Old and New
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Title: India, Old and New
Author: Sir Valentine Chirol
Release Date: April 8, 2005 [EBook #15586]
Language: English
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INDIA OLD AND NEW
BY SIR VALENTINE CHIROL
AUTHOR OF "INDIAN UNREST," "THE EGYPTIAN PROBLEM," ETC.
"We shall in time so far improve the character of our Indian subjects as to enable them to govern and protect themselves."--Minute by Sir Thomas Munro, Governor of Madras, Dec. 31, 1824.
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1921
FOREWORD
It is little more than ten years since I wrote my Indian Unrest. But they have been years that may well count for decades in the history of the world, and not least in the history of India. Much has happened in India to confirm many of the views which I then expressed. Much has happened also to lead me to modify others, and to recognise more clearly to-day the shortcomings of a system of government, in many ways unrivalled, but subject to the inevitable limitations of alien rule.
At a very early stage of the Great War the Prime Minister warned the British people that, after the splendid demonstration India