Sir Charles Wood's Administration of Indian Affairs from 1859 to 1866Smith, Elder, 1867 - 179 Seiten |
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Seite 125 - ... to the great mass of the people, who are utterly incapable of obtaining any education worthy of the name by their own unaided efforts, and we desire to see the active measures of Government more especially directed, for the future, to this object, for the attainment of which we are ready to sanction a considerable increase of expenditure.
Seite 56 - That the rate of rent paid by such ryot is below the prevailing rate payable by the same class of ryots for land of a similar description and with similar advantages in the places adjacent.
Seite 112 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no " palaces, no schools; England has built no bridges, " made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no " reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other " description has left some monument, either of state " or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven " out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell " that it had been possessed, during the inglorious " period of our dominion, by anything better than the
Seite 1 - I say, that there is not a single prince, or state, who ever put any trust in the Company, who is not utterly ruined; and that none are in any degree secure or flourishing, but in the exact proportion to their settled distrust and irreconcilable enmity to this nation.
Seite 2 - I do most confidently maintain that no civilized government ever existed on the face of this earth which was more corrupt, more perfidious, and more rapacious than the government of the East India Company from the years 1765 to 1784.
Seite 56 - That the quantity of land held by the ryot has been proved by measurement to be greater than the quantity for which rent has been previously paid by him.
Seite 50 - I felt that a shot fired in anger or fear by one foolish planter might put every factory in Lower Bengal in flames' — Bucklar.d, Bengal under the Lieutenant Qovernors, Vol.
Seite 124 - It left nothing to be desired, if indeed it did not authorise and direct that more should be done than is within our present grasp.
Seite 47 - The recent crisis, though accelerated by an unfounded belief on the part of the ryot that the Government was opposed to the cultivation of indigo, must have sooner or later occurred owing to the disturbance which has taken place on the relative returns to the ryot from indigo as compared with cereals and other cultivation, and the planters would have done well had they paid earlier attention to the above facts and met the ryot with a more proportionate remuneration.