History of India, Том 2John Grant, 1906 |
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Страница 61 - The village communities are little republics, having nearly everything that they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Dynasty after dynasty tumbles down. Revolution succeeds to revolution. Hindoo, Patan, Mogul, Mahratta, Sikh, English, are all masters in turn, but the village communities remain the same.
Страница 37 - Peshwa's army. It was towards the afternoon of a very sultry day ; there was a dead calm, and no sound was heard, except the rushing, the trampling and neighing of the horses, and the rumbling of the gun wheels. The effect was heightened by seeing the peaceful peasantry flying from their work...
Страница 61 - If a country remain for a series of years the scene of continued pillage and massacre, so that the villages cannot be inhabited, the scattered villagers nevertheless return whenever the power of peaceable possession revives. A generation may pass away, but the succeeding generation will return. The sons will take the place of their fathers ; the same site for the...
Страница 101 - Malcolm, who had been an unsuccessful competitor for Madras, was consoled by the Governorship of Bombay on Elphinstone's retirement. Although the post was considered of inferior dignity, he had hoped to find the Lieutenancy of the Central Provinces — with which he had been so honourably connected — made a sort of personal adjunct to his charge : in this hope, however, he was disappointed, the minor charge being vested in Mr G. Wellesley. Malcolm was well equipped, however, for the appointment...
Страница 61 - ... by the descendants of those who were driven out when the village was depopulated. And it is not a trifling matter that will drive them out ; for they will often maintain their post through times of disturbance and convulsion, and acquire strength sufficient to resist pillage and oppression with success.
Страница 197 - There is no course open to us," so the Governor-General wrote to the authorities at home — "there is no course open to us but to prepare for a general Punjab war, and ultimately to occupy the country." In pursuance of this clear and bold policy, which met with no opposition from London, Dalhousie ordered up a strong column from Sindh to reinforce General Whish before Multan. On the other side of India the garrisons of Meerut and Ambala, the convalescents from the hill-dep6ts, and the remainder...
Страница 362 - We have hitherto declined to take part in intestine dissensions of the Afghan State. . . . But as our efforts to cultivate a closer acquaintance with Dost Muhamad have failed, and his brothers at Candahar have thrown themselves into the arms of a power whose approach to the Indus is incompatible with the safety of Her Majesty's Indian possessions,* it becomes our imperative duty to adopt a policy by which Cabul and Candahar may be united under a sovereign bound ... to become and remain the faithful...
Страница 313 - India" shall include any person born and domiciled within the dominions of Her Majesty in India, of parents habitually resident in India, and not established there for temporary purposes only...
Страница 99 - We have a great moral duty to perform to the people of India. We must, if possible, give them a good and permanent government. In doing this, we confer a greater benefit upon the people of this country than in sacrificing the interests of India to the apparent present interests of England. The real interests of both countries »re the same. The convulsion which would dissolve their connection would entail much loss upon us, and bring desolation upon India.
Страница 216 - This peril, then, Lord Dalhousie suspected, if he did not quite understand : but the preparation to meet it was never made ; when so much had been done to alarm and offend native opinion, common prudence should have dictated an earnest strengthening of the defences. If it cannot be said that Dalhousie deserves the full blame of neglecting this, yet there has seemed to many (made wise by after events) that he might have taken up the question of military reform earlier and with more vigour. It appeared...