 | Henry Thoby Prinsep - 1825 - 520 pagina’s
...willing to take the necessary measures to ensure it. Thus has the first step been gained in the progress of improvement, — the rest will follow in due course...land revenue — customs — salt monopoly — Opium dittoother items — statement for India during the same period — home territorial charges — and... | |
 | Sir John Foster George Ross-of-Bladensburg - 1893 - 262 pagina’s
...introduced. ' The dark age of trouble and violence,' says a writer of the day, already often quoted 1, ' which so long spread its malign influence over the...of political liberty and high moral improvement.' This prophecy has not been falsified, but it is not to be supposed that the new order which was established... | |
 | Sir John Foster George Ross-of-Bladensburg - 1893 - 258 pagina’s
...has thus ceased from this time; and a new era has commenced, we trust, with brighter prospects,—an era of peace, prosperity, and wealth at least, if...of political liberty and high moral improvement.' This prophecy has not been falsified, but it is not to be supposed that the new order which was established... | |
 | George Devereux Oswell - 1908 - 236 pagina’s
...There was no exaggeration in the observations made by an historian on the effects of his good work : ' The dark age of trouble and violence, which so long...of political liberty and high moral improvement.' Well has Sir WW Hunter said : ' The proudest boast of Lord Hastings and Sir John Malcolm was, not that... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - 1920 - 866 pagina’s
...by quoting the passage with which Prinsep concludes his ' Political Review ', published in 1825 : ' The struggle which has thus ended in the universal...of political liberty and high moral improvement.' The validity of the prediction that no further struggle with the native powers of India need occur... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - 1920 - 880 pagina’s
...1825 : ' The struggle which has thus ended in the universal establishment of the British inlluencc is particularly important and worthy of attention,...of political liberty and high moral improvement.' The validity of the prediction that no further struggle with the native powers of India need occur... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - 1928 - 866 pagina’s
...influence over the fertile regions of Central India, has thus ceased from this time ; and a new era nas commenced, we trust, with brighter prospects — an...of political liberty and high moral improvement.' The validity of the prediction that no further struggle with the native powers of India need occur... | |
 | Stephen Neill - 2002 - 604 pagina’s
...ever have to maintain with the native powers of India . . . The dark age of trouble and violence ... has thus ceased from this time; and a new era has...of political liberty and high moral improvement." 3 A NEW TYPE OF RULER Prinsep was a little too optimistic in his prognostications for the future; but... | |
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Henceforward this epoch will be referred to as that whence each of the existing states will date the commencement of its peaceable settlement, and the consolidation of its relations with the controlling power. The dark age of trouble and violence, which... 