History of India from the Earliest Times to the Present DaySociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1917 - 497 pages |
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Afghan afterwards Agra Ahmadnagar Akbar allies arms army Aryan attack Aurangzeb Babur Bengal Berar Bihār Bijapur Bombay Brahman brave brother Calcutta capital capture Carnatic century chief Clive Colonel commander conquered conqueror conquest countrymen Court death Deccan defeat Delhi dynasty emperor English ere long father fell fight followed French fresh Ganges garrison Governor Governor-General Gujarat guns Haidar hands Hastings Hindu Holkar honour Humayun hundred Indus Jumna Kabul Khan king kingdom Lahore land later length Lord Madras Mahmud Malwa Maratha marched master Meanwhile Mughal Muhammad Muhammadan Mussulman Mysore Narbada native Nawab neighbours Nizām nobles numbers officers once Orissa Oudh peace Persian Peshwa plunder Poona Portuguese princes prisoner province Punjab race Raja Rajput Rão reign revenue rival rule ruler Sepoys Shah Jahan Sikh Sindhia Singh Sivaji soldiers Southern India success successor Sultan Sutlej sway thousand throne took trade treaty troops turn victory
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Page 148 - The increase of our revenue is the subject of our care, as much as our trade : — 'tis that must maintain our force, when twenty accidents may interrupt our trade: 'tis that must make us a nation in India...
Page 440 - The sovereignty of the Crown is everywhere unchallenged. It has itself laid down the limitations of its own prerogative.
Page 400 - At his best the Indian Ryot, or cultivator is quite as good as, and in some respects the superior of, the average British farmer; whilst at his worst, it can only be said that this state is brought about largely by an absence of facilities for improvement which is probably unequalled in any other country and that the Ryot will struggle on patiently and uncomplainingly in the face of difficulties in a way that no one else would.
Page 70 - In the reigns of former kings the blood of many Musulmans had been shed, and many varieties of torture employed. Amputation of hands and feet, ears and noses ; tearing out the eyes, pouring molten lead into the throat, crushing the bones of the hands and feet with mallets, burning the body with fire, driving iron nails into the hands, feet, and bosom, cutting the sinews, sawing men asunder ; these and many similar tortures were practised.
Page 432 - Ever since the cold breath of Macaulay's rhetoric passed over the field of the Indian languages and Indian text-books, the elementary education of the people in their own tongues has shrivelled and pined.
Page 457 - ... they now enjoy. Let no man admit the craven fear that those who have won India cannot hold it, or that we have only made India to our own or to its unmaking. That is not the true reading of history. That is not my forecast of the future. To me the message is carved in granite, it is hewn out of the rock of doom — that our work is righteous and that it shall endure.
Page 430 - No, sir, there is not a man in this room who does not know that I resigned for a great principle, or rather for two great principles, firstly, the hitherto uncontested, the essential, and in the long run the indestructible subordination of military to civil authority in the administration of all well-conducted states, and, secondly, the payment of due and becoming regard to Indian authority in determining India's needs.
Page 6 - ... is alone present. And passing out of the mere consciousness of the infinity of thought he entered into a state of mind to which nothing at all was specially present. And passing out of the consciousness of no special object he fell into a state between consciousness and unconsciousness. And passing out of the state between consciousness and unconsciousness he fell into a state in which the consciousness both of sensations and of ideas had wholly passed away. 12. Then the venerable Ananda said...
Page 457 - India, and justified its mission to mankind. But it is not going to end. It is not a moribund organism. It is still in its youth, and has in it the vitality of an unexhausted purpose. I am not with the pessimists in this matter. I am not one of those who think that we have built a mere fragile plank between the East and West which the roaring tides of Asia will presently sweep away.
Page 426 - ... older than our own, with a history not inferior to ours in dignity or romance; subduing them not to the law of the sword, but to the rule of justice, bringing peace and order and good government to nearly one-fifth of the entire human race, and holding them with so mild a restraint that...