Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LETTER OF INTRODUCTION
- LETTER I THE TWO SYSTEMS
- LETTER II AN INDIAN RAILWAY
- LETTER III A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL AND AN OPIUM FACTORY
- LETTER IV A STORY OF THE GREAT MUTINY
- LETTER V A JOURNEY, A GRAND TUMASHA, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CIVIL SERVICE CAREER
- LETTER VI A TIGER-PARTY IN NEPAUL
- LETTER VII ABOUT CALCUTTA AND ITS CLIMATE; WITH SERIOUS INFERENCES
- LETTER VIII ABOUT THE HINDOO CHARACTER; WITH DIGRESSIONS HOME
- LETTER IX BRITISH TEMPER TOWARDS INDIA, BEFORE, DURING, AND SINCE THE MUTINY
- LETTER X THE “ANGLO-SAXON” PARTY IN INDIA
- LETTER XI CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA
- LETTER XII EDUCATION IN INDIA SINCE 1835 ; WITH A MINUTE OF LORD MACAULAY
LETTER XI - CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LETTER OF INTRODUCTION
- LETTER I THE TWO SYSTEMS
- LETTER II AN INDIAN RAILWAY
- LETTER III A GOVERNMENT SCHOOL AND AN OPIUM FACTORY
- LETTER IV A STORY OF THE GREAT MUTINY
- LETTER V A JOURNEY, A GRAND TUMASHA, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CIVIL SERVICE CAREER
- LETTER VI A TIGER-PARTY IN NEPAUL
- LETTER VII ABOUT CALCUTTA AND ITS CLIMATE; WITH SERIOUS INFERENCES
- LETTER VIII ABOUT THE HINDOO CHARACTER; WITH DIGRESSIONS HOME
- LETTER IX BRITISH TEMPER TOWARDS INDIA, BEFORE, DURING, AND SINCE THE MUTINY
- LETTER X THE “ANGLO-SAXON” PARTY IN INDIA
- LETTER XI CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA
- LETTER XII EDUCATION IN INDIA SINCE 1835 ; WITH A MINUTE OF LORD MACAULAY
Summary
Dear Simkins,–On my return from a visit to Chandernagore, I found two letters full of your reflections on the questions of the advisability of our keeping India. One had come through Bombay, and the other by Point de Galle, and I am anxiously expecting another round the Cape. The problems which you select for discussion are certainly rather antiquated. Some three months ago you gave me your opinion about the annexation of Oude, in a treatise that displayed profound political wisdom, which more than compensated for a slight want of familiarity with the details of your subject. At first I was surprised and gratified to find that you had turned your attention to an event so recent; but it gradually began to dawn upon me that the annexation of Oude, which you had undertaken to justify in the sight of God and man, was not that accomplished by Lord Dalhousie, in 1856, but the arrangement which was effected by Lord Wellesley, as far back as 1801. While reading your letters I seem to resemble the traveller, who, during a tour in Southern Russia, in the year 1819, came to a Cossack village, somewhere between the Don and the Volga. He found the population in a state of wild excitement and exhilaration. Bonfires were blazing, and oxen roasting whole. The gutters ran with raki and train-oil. Peasants who had never tasted anything daintier than a rushlight now had their fill of long sixes.
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- The Competition Wallah , pp. 367 - 407Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1864