India

I myself believe that the government of India by the English has been rendered appreciably easier by the discoveries which have brought home to the educated of both races the common Aryan parentage of Englishman and Hindoo.

Now, in very ancient bodies of rules the Law of Distress, as I shall endeavour to explain hereafter, is undoubtedly entitled to a very different place from that which would be given to it in any modern system of jurisprudence;

It had the imperfections of the view obtained by looking on the Gangetic plains from the slopes of the Himalayas.

When this sacred legal literature of the Hindus is surveyed in its entirety, it is impossible not to recognise the plausibility of the modern theories of its origin.

The Anglo-Indian Courts accepted from the school of Sanscritists which he founded the assertion of his Brahmanical advisers, that the sacred laws beginning in the extant book of Manu were acknowledged by all Hindus to be binding on them.

It is still a comparatively common practice in India for the aged Hindu to retire into ‘religion,’ and the law, as administered by the British tribunals, makes provision in many places for the case of a Hindu who has embraced a religious life, and ceased to participate in any kind of secular business.

On the other hand, it was the duty of a considerable number of British magistrates and officials in India to have some acquaintance with so much of Hindu and Mahometan law as was recognised and applied by the civil courts;

In India, the system survives in absolute completeness, and its operation is so strict that a Hindoo Mother frequently becomes the ward of her own sons.

In India, the widow of a Hindoo sovereign governs in the name of her infant son, and we cannot but remember that the custom regulating succession to the throne of France—which, whatever be its origin, is doubtless of the highest antiquity—preferred the queen-mother to all other claimants for the Regency, at the same time that it rigorously excluded all females from the throne.

Addressing a Hindu audience I say I advocate democracy because it leads to civil equality, but that the practical rule of Government in India is not embodied in the formula, “One man, one vote.

Seeing that the State, by a straining of an Act of Parliament which verges on sharp practice, contrives to shirk dock and harbour dues on all materials shipped from this country to India for the purposes of State railway construction, the contest is not an even one, but a most unfair handicap.

Such are the people who would grant representative institutions to the Fijians, and who would model the Government of India on that of the United States of America.

For the conflagration, which has fed upon much of the East, is now creeping over ours as well, and, having burned all around, strives contentiously to lay hold even of the churches in Cappadocia, which until now the smoke from the neighborhood moved to tears.

So we exhort you now at least to stretch out a hand to the churches of the East, already bent to their knees, and to send some men to remind us of the rewards laid up for the endurance of sufferings for Christ.

and, if this is difficult, at least that some should come from you to visit and console the afflicted, in order that they may set before your eyes the sufferings of the East, which it is impossible to take in by hearing, since no words can be found to set our condition vividly before you.

Can anything so childish be said (to press the same point a little longer) as if we should say that those kinds of beasts which are born in the Red Sea or in India do not exist?

The fifth is in India, who is called Belus.

, a zamíndár, maintains an ancient tank on his zamíndárí for the benefit of agriculture.

This class is aptly denoted in the Indian Penal Code (for the same or similar principles apply to the law of criminal liability) by the name of General Exceptions.

A series of decisions of the Indian Supreme Courts and the Privy Council have applied this rule to the dealings of the East India Company with native States and with the property of native princes.

to both Phrygias, to Paphlagonia, India, Caria, and Cilicia;

And when the Indians came in they said that the king of India had sent them with orders to ask on what ground the Medes and the Assyrians had declared war.

Once when Cyrus was holding a general review and parade of all his men under arms, a messenger came from Cyaxares saying that an embassy had arrived from India.

France and Spain were trampled in the dust, Protestant Germany saved, all North America was the dominion of the British Crown, the vast foundations were laid of our empire in India.

I pass over the Cappadocians, the Syrians, and the beings who inhabit the land of India toward the ends of the earth, all of whom have had the misfortune to suffer many terrible and grievous afflictions.

but if I take Darius, and the king of the Indians besides, nothing shall prevent me from being the greatest of all kings that ever were.

All others, then, he despised, and thought none worthy to contend with him in this matter—neither the Persian, nor the Scythian, nor the Indian, nor among the Greeks any man or any city.

They found their new markets, thanks to the complete supremacy of England at sea, in India, North and South America, the West India Islands, and Asia Minor, pushing their trade over, the whole known world with the greatest vigour.

Many of the trade difficulties of ancient times and of the middle ages can be directly traced to drought, or to flood, in the same way that famine due to similar causes has a prejudicial effect upon commerce in China, in India, in Russia, and even to a certain extent in Europe and America to-day.

especially in reference to the growth of monopolies, the ruin wrought by our capitalist system in India, America and the Colonies, and the periods of recurrence of international commercial crises.

These Indians wear clothes of bullrushes;

To the east of the Indian country is sand.

these trees supply the Indians with clothing.

The country called India lies far from Egypt, being large and densely peopled.

one that devout men of the inner country of the Ethiopians — those whom our account knows to call Indians — recounted to me, having translated it without falsehood from trustworthy records.

Such few examples.

With ivory ramparts India about,

That her interiors cannot entered be-

I apprehend also that all the British conquests in India, within the last hundred years, and all the oppressions practised, within that time, upon 100,000,000 of people, have not succeeded in extracting so much net wealth from that country, as has been created by the spindles and looms of England, in the last ten, or perhaps even five, years.

When Alexander was now roaming through India and laying waste with war nations not well known even to their neighbors, in the siege of a certain city, while he went round the walls seeking the weakest points of the fortifications, he was struck by an arrow;

if Nebuchadnezzar with his petty kings, from India to Ethiopia he held the bounds of his kingdom;