Lord William BentinckClarendon Press, 1892 - 214 Seiten |
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abolition of satí administration authority batta Bengal army Bombay British Government Calcutta career cavalry character Charles Metcalfe Charter Colonel Malleson command Committee Company's considerable considered Court of Directors danger despatch Dupleix East India Company effect Empire English establishment European favour feeling force French Government of India Governor-General Haidarábád Hindu honour important increased Indian Government infantry interest Italy Kábul language Lord Amherst Lord William Bentinck Mahárájá Maráthá Marquis measure ment military MINUTE continued Mughal Empire Mutiny Mysore native army native troops natives of India Nizam Nizámat Adálat officers opinion Owen Burne Parliament political possess practice of satí present question Rájá Rám Ranjit Singh realised reform regiments renewal result revenue rite Rulers of India Russian Sanskrit sepoy Shuja Sicily Sindhia Sir Charles Metcalfe Sir Thomas Munro Sir William Hunter territories Thags Thomas Munro tion trade Vellore Vellore mutiny Warren Hastings Wellesley
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Seite 153 - Sanscrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European...
Seite 154 - I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.
Seite 155 - Whoever knows that language has ready access to all the vast intellectual wealth which all the wisest nations of the earth have created and hoarded in the course of ninety generations.
Seite 152 - ... to a native who was familiar with the poetry of Milton, the metaphysics of Locke, and the physics of Newton ; but that they meant to designate by that name only such persons as might have studied in the sacred books of the Hindoos all the uses of cusa-grass.
Seite 101 - I must acknowledge that a similar opinion as to the probable excitation of a deep distrust of our future intentions was mentioned to me in conversation by that enlightened native, Ram Mohan Roy, a warm advocate for the abolition of Sati and of all other superstitions and corruptions engrafted on the Hindu religion, which he considers originally to have been pure Deism.
Seite 156 - The fact that the Hindoo law is to be learned chiefly from Sanscrit books, and the Mahomedan law from Arabic books, has been much insisted on, but seems not to bear at all on the question. We are commanded by Parliament to ascertain and digest the laws of India. The assistance of a law commission has been given to us for that purpose. As soon as the code is promulgated, the Shasters and the Hedaya will be useless to a Moonsiff or Sudder Ameen.
Seite 152 - It is argued, or rather taken for granted, that by literature the Parliament can have meant only Arabic and Sanskrit literature; that they never would have given the honourable appellation of "a learned native" to a native who was familiar with the poetry of Milton, the metaphysics of Locke, and the physics of Newton; but that they meant to designate by that name only such persons as...
Seite 102 - Settlement, which, though a failure in many other respects and in its most important essentials, has this great advantage at least, of having created a vast body of rich landed proprietors deeply interested in the continuance of the British Dominion and having complete command over the mass of the people...
Seite 155 - Nor is this all : in India English is the language spoken by the ruling class ; it is spoken by the higher class of natives at the seats of government; it is likely to become the language of commerce throughout the seas of the East...
Seite 155 - The question now before us is simply whether, when it is in our power to teach this language, we shall teach languages in which, by universal confession, there are no books on any subject which deserve to be compared to our own; whether, when we can teach European science, we shall teach systems which, by universal confession, whenever they differ from those of Europe, differ for the worse; and whether, when we can patronise sound Philosophy and true History, we shall countenance, at the public expense...