India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey.

  • John Strachey
Date:
1903
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Credit: India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONCLUSION Cruel customs—Neglect of social questions—Reasons for avoiding their discussion — The employment of Natives in the public service — Political hypocrisy — The duty of maintaining our dominion— Offices to be retained by Englishmen—Natives of India often as much foreigners as Englishmen in provinces other than their own — Sir Syad Ahmad Khan on Mohammedans and Hindus — The results of British Government—The popularity of our Government —Lord Lawrence’s opinion—Reasons wThy our Government cannot be popular—The dangers to which our dominion is exposed—The principles on which our Government must be conducted. 9 There is no province in India without customs which we think must be repugnant to all civilised men, but which are almost universally respected because they are believed to have been divinely ordained, or which have come down from a remote antiquity. There is hardly a province in which horrid and cruel practices would not instantly spring into vigorous life if our watchful- ness were relaxed. The prohibition of the burning of widows was, and is still, disapproved by all but a small minority of Hindus. I doubt whether the majority even of the more highly educated classes approve it. I gave in a previous chapter an account of the wholesale murder of female children, which, in parts of India, has gone on for centuries, a custom against which
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