One of the greatest disadvantages of our Government in India is its tendency to lower or destroy the higher ranks of society, to bring them all too much to one level, and by depriving them of their former weight and influence, to render them less useful... Saint Pauls - Page 3531868Full view - About this book
| Henry Dundas Robertson - 1829 - 196 pages
...school, there need be no apprehension whatever, that he has drawn too highly coloured a picture. " One " of the greatest disadvantages of our Government..." and by depriving them of their former weight and inN2 179 " fluence, to render them less useful instruments in the in" ternal administration of the... | |
| 1829 - 1030 pages
...Thomas Munro is cjVioteJ by our author as expressing himself; in one of his minutes, as follows : " One of the greatest disadvantages of our government...lower, or destroy, the higher ranks of society, to faring them all too much to one level, and by depriving them of their tonner weight and influence,... | |
| George Robert Gleig - 1830 - 466 pages
...raise it as far as may be practicable in the existing relative situation of this country to Britain. One of the greatest disadvantages of our Government...instruments in the internal administration of the country. The native Governments had a class of richer gentry, composed of Jageerdars and Enamdars, and of all... | |
| 1841 - 516 pages
...prior views, and, after the experience of twenty- five years, he recorded the striking fact that — " One of the greatest disadvantages of our government...ranks of society, to bring them all too much to one common level, and by depriving them of their former weight and influence, to render them less useful... | |
| 1841 - 722 pages
...parallel between the former position of the people and their position at the present time. He said — One of the greatest disadvantages of our Government...ranks of society — to bring them all too much to one level-anil by depriving them of their former weight and influence, to renJer them less useful instruments... | |
| George Robert Gleig - 1849 - 388 pages
...raise it as far as may be practicable in the existing relative situation of this country to Britain. " One of the greatest disadvantages of our government...instruments in the internal administration of the country. The native governments had a class of richer gentry, composed of Jagheerdars and Enamdars, and of all... | |
| George Robert Gleig - 1849 - 390 pages
...raise it as far as may be practicable in the existing relative situation of this country to Britain. " One of the greatest disadvantages of our government...instruments in the internal administration of the country. The native governments had a class of richer gentry, composed of Jagheerdars and Enamdars, and of all... | |
| Henry Allon - 1868 - 728 pages
...tendency to lower or ' destroy the higher ranks of society, to bring them all too ' much to one dead level, and, by depriving them of their ' former weight and influence, to render them less useful instru' mente in the internal administration of tho country.' In another place Sir Thomas bitterly... | |
| James Hutton - 1875 - 596 pages
...passing under British rule. ' One of the greatest disadvantages of our government in India,' he added, ' is its tendency to lower or destroy the higher ranks...instruments in the internal administration of the country.' To the same purport is the evidence of Lord AVilliam Bentinck, who declared that ' in many respects... | |
| Sir Thomas Munro - 1881 - 422 pages
...raise it as far as may be practicable in the existing relative situation of this country to Britain. One of the greatest disadvantages of our government...instruments in the internal administration of the country. The native government had a class of richer gentry, composed of jagirdars and inamdars, and all the... | |
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