Sir Henry Lawrence: The PacificatorClarendon Press, 1898 - 208 pages |
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Page 169 - A third remarked when he heard that Sind was to be joined to Bengal: " Perhaps there will be an order to join London to Bengal." The other day an Oudh sepoy of the Bombay cavalry at Neemuch, being asked if he liked annexation, replied: " No ; I used to be a great man when I went home ; the best in my village rose as I approached ; now the lowest puff their pipes in my face.
Page 174 - Hindus to sea to conquer the world for us. On my remarking that the Sepoy, though a good soldier on shore, is a bad one at sea by reason of his poor food, " That is just it,
Page 147 - Jellalabad), should we not then have a more difficult game to play than Clive had at Plassey, or Wellington at Assaye ? We should then be literally striking for our existence, at the most inclement season of the year, with the prestige of our name...
Page 40 - Afghanistan [it saidj appears to be such, according to the last advices received by the Governor-General, that his lordship cannot but contemplate the possibility of your having been led, by the absence of serious opposition on the part of any army in the field, by the divisions amongst the...
Page 122 - Punjab, and although the system of civil government has wisely and successfully been made more simple in its forms, still we are of opinion that the superintendence of so large a system, everywhere founded on the Regulations, and pervaded by their spirit, can be thoroughly controlled and moulded, as changes from time to time may become necessary, only by a civilian fully versed in the system of the elder provinces and experienced in its operation.
Page 77 - Maharajah during his minority (a period of about eight years), or for a more limited time, placing a British minister at the head of the Government, assisted by a Native Council, composed of the ablest and most influential chiefs.
Page 110 - ... desire to bring peace to the Punjaub is likely to affect the warlike measures of the Government ; and that you are come as a peacemaker for the Sikhs, as standing between them and the Government. This cannot be There must be entire identity between the Government and its Agent, whoever he is I repeat, that I can allow nothing to be said or done, which should raise the notion that the policy of the Government of India, or its intentions, depend on your presence us Resident in the Punjaub, or the...
Page 65 - It was necessary last March to weaken the Sikhs by depriving them of Kashmir. The distance from Kashmir to the Sutlej is 300 miles of very difficult mountainous country quite impracticable for six months. To keep a British force 300 miles from any possibility of support would have been an undertaking that merited a strait-waistcoat and not a peerage.