The Administration of India from to 1868, Vol. 1 of 2: The First Ten Years of Administration Under the Crown (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Iltudus Thomas Prichard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331496063 ISBN 13: 9781331496069

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Administration of India From to 1868, Vol. 1 of 2: The First Ten Years of Administration Under the Crown

Military events should either be related in great detail as in Kinglake's Crimea, or Napier's Peninsular War, or concisely, as in Gibbon, who in five lines disposes of a campaign that extended from Gaul to Constantinople. A bare recital of successive operations, wearying the reader with names of persons and places in which he can take no interest, because he knows nothing of them individually and separately, must always be dry and uninteresting. And this is the reason why, for the most part, Indian history is so unpalatable to the general reader. His eye runs over page after page of wars and battles, victories and defeats, and when he reaches the end, he finds that nothing he has read has left the least definite impression on his mind. All he derives is a cloudy recollection of a mass of names, in which no single feature is distinguishable from the rest. And Indian history is, for the most part, a chronicle of wars, and little else.

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Excerpt from The Administration of India From to 1868, Vol. 1 of 2: The First Ten Years of Administration Under the Crown The period between 1859 and 1868 is in many respects the most important epoch in the history of British India which the present century has seen. It has been essentially a period of progress - of progress rapid, decided, unprecedented. No doubt the next decade, from 1869 to 1879, will present to those who live to watch it, still greater changes and more striking improvements than those which stamp the period under review with the characteristics I have assigned to it. But they who are called on to assist in those reforms, and whose duty or privilege it is to aid in the advance of civilization in India and the development of her future, will do well to study the history of the last ten years. The condition of India much resembles that of a patient whose whole system has been labouring for a long while under some chronic disease, so subtle in its influence and so deep-seated as to baffle the vigilance of the physician. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331496063
• ISBN 13: 9781331496069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 357