 | John Clark Marshman - India - 1867 - 440 pages
...spread information among men is to render them less tractable and less submissive to authority. ... It would be treason against British sentiment to imagine...dishonest advantages over the blindness of the multitude." The instruction of the people, which had hitherto beeu avoided as an element of danger, was thus, for... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - India - 1867 - 476 pages
...spread information among men is to render them less tractable and less submissive to authority. ... It would be treason against British sentiment to imagine...dishonest advantages over the blindness of the multitude." The instruction of the people, which had hitherto been avoided as an element of danger, was thus, for... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - India - 1876 - 582 pages
...principle that any attempt to enlighten the AD people would create political aspirations which might l818 endanger their power, and lead to its subversion....sprang up in the districts around Calcutta through the agency of the missionaries, and were fostered by a liberal donation from Government. Some of the... | |
 | John Shaw Banks - India - 1880 - 318 pages
...spread information among men is to render them less tractable and less submissive to authority. ... It would be treason against British sentiment to imagine...dishonest advantages over the blindness of the multitude.' A native college was founded for the study of English. The Serampore missionaries pushed on their educational... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - India - 1893 - 622 pages
...established a higher claim to mentof public gratitude, by the encouragement which lon. he was the first to give to the intellectual improvement of the natives....sprang up in the districts around Calcutta through the agency of the missionaries, and were fostered by a liberal donation from Government. Some of the... | |
 | Sir John Foster George Ross-of-Bladensburg - Governors - 1893 - 262 pages
...spread information among men is to render them less tractable and less submissive to authority. ... It would be treason against British sentiment to imagine...dishonest advantages over the blindness of the multitude V Again, commenting upon some brutal and deliberate crimes commited by sepoys he says : — ' The gain... | |
 | Henry George Keene - India - 1893 - 504 pages
...not buy immunity at such a price. " It would be treason," he wrote, " to imagine that it could ever be the principle of this Government to perpetuate...dishonest advantages over the blindness of the multitude." He was not only the founder of the Indian Empire but the founder of national Indian education. With... | |
 | Henry Morris - 1904 - 444 pages
...to spread information among men is to render them less tractable and less submissive to authority. It would be treason against British sentiment to imagine...dishonest advantages over the blindness of the multitude." * 1 The Administration of the East India Company, by Sir J. \V. Kaye, p. 590. London, Bentley, 1853.... | |
 | Henry Morris - Great Britain - 1904 - 438 pages
...to spread information among men is to render them less tractable and less submissive to authority. It would be treason against British sentiment to imagine...and dishonest advantages over the blindness of the multitude."2 1 The Administration of the East India Company, by Sir JW Kaye, p. 590. London, Bentley,... | |
 | Henry George Keene - India - 1906 - 424 pages
...would not buy immunity at such a price. "It would be treason," he wrote, "to imagine that it could ever be the principle of this Government to perpetuate...dishonest advantages over the blindness of the multitude." He was not only the founder of the Indian Empire but the founder of national Indian education. With... | |
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Hastings repudiated this policy, and in one of his public addresses stated that " it would be treason against British " sentiment to imagine that it ever could be the principle " of this Government to perpetuate ignorance in order to " secure paltry and... 
