Earl of Cromer, Ancient and Modern Imperialism, London, 1910 (143 pp.)
Practically nil. The pretentious chatter, with a learned appearance and endless quotations from Roman writers, of a British imperialist and bureaucratic official, who ends by pleading for India to be kept in subjection, against those who allow the idea of her separation. It would be “a crime against civilisation” (123) to liberate India... etc., etc.
Parallels with Rome, the lucubrations and advice of a bureaucrat, almost entirely of an “administrative” character—that’s all.
p. 101: in India (Indian Census, p. 173) 90 men and 10 women out of 10,000 of each sex read and write English (101)....
103: It is a good thing that we did not oppose the teaching of Dutch in South Africa: now this language will die out of itself....
107: Hatred of and anger against the “wretched youth” (Dhingra), who assassinated Sir Curzon Wyllie (and wrote his defence in English)....
110: quoted the Journal of the Statistical Society, Vol. XLI: Walford, “The Famines of the World”... (350 cases of famine). In India there have been cases when 3-10 million died of hunger (111).... Romesh Dutt: Famines in India (quotation, 113)....
122: There are 147 languages in India; 276 million people speak 23 languages (Indian Census, p. 248)....
124, note: advice to young Englishmen: “read, mark, learn and inwardly digest” the history of the “Indian Mutiny”....
[1] See present edition, Vol. 22, p. 260.—Ed.
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