The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial RecordOriental Institute, 1900 Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association. |
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... regard India not merely as a land of regrets and exile , but as a region which claims our deepest sympathy and attention , which is full of instruction for us , and which a happy destiny - happy for us , and happy for its people— has ...
... regard India not merely as a land of regrets and exile , but as a region which claims our deepest sympathy and attention , which is full of instruction for us , and which a happy destiny - happy for us , and happy for its people— has ...
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... regard the Koran and the latter the Shastras as containing Divine ordinances , which no human legislation , however wise or beneficent , could improve , Akbar wisely enough abstained from attempting to play the role The Mogul , Mahratta ...
... regard the Koran and the latter the Shastras as containing Divine ordinances , which no human legislation , however wise or beneficent , could improve , Akbar wisely enough abstained from attempting to play the role The Mogul , Mahratta ...
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... regard to civil rights , he did not hesitate to interfere with the strict enforcement of those laws when they appeared to him cruel or unjust . Thus , he anticipated to some extent our own later legislation by nearly three centuries ...
... regard to civil rights , he did not hesitate to interfere with the strict enforcement of those laws when they appeared to him cruel or unjust . Thus , he anticipated to some extent our own later legislation by nearly three centuries ...
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... regard , which was unusual in his dealings with his other officials . Selfish to the core , the Maharaja treated his officers like men on a chess - board . He moved and utilized them to suit the exigencies of the occasion , and if he ...
... regard , which was unusual in his dealings with his other officials . Selfish to the core , the Maharaja treated his officers like men on a chess - board . He moved and utilized them to suit the exigencies of the occasion , and if he ...
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... regard this as objectionable in principle . Lord Cornwallis went so far as to describe it as " ruinous . " Accordingly , in Bengal , and afterwards in all Hindustan or Upper India , the assessment of the revenue was ( in one way or ...
... regard this as objectionable in principle . Lord Cornwallis went so far as to describe it as " ruinous . " Accordingly , in Bengal , and afterwards in all Hindustan or Upper India , the assessment of the revenue was ( in one way or ...
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Page 231 - Firmly relying ourselves on the truth of Christianity, and acknowledging with gratitude the solace of religion, we disclaim alike the right and the desire to impose our convictions on any of our subjects.
Page 324 - The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.
Page 104 - The triumph, and the vanity, The rapture of the strife — The earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life ; The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man...
Page 86 - We hold Ourselves bound to the Natives of Our Indian Territories by the same obligations of Duty which bind Us to all Our other Subjects ; and those Obligations, by the Blessing of Almighty God, We shall faithfully and conscientiously fulfil.
Page 226 - That it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and that such measures ought to be adopted as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge and of • religious and moral improvement.
Page 402 - We declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that :none be in any wise favoured, none molested or disquieted, by ^reason of their religious faith or observances, but that all shall alike enjoy the equal and impartial protection of the law ; and we do strictly charge and enjoin all those who may be in authority under us that they abstain from all interference with the religious belief or worship of any of our subjects on pain of our highest displeasure.
Page 6 - His godlike guest, walks forth, without more train Accompanied than with his own complete Perfections ; in himself was all his state, More solemn than the tedious pomp that waits On princes when their rich retinue long Of horses led, and grooms besmeared with gold, Dazzles the crowd, and sets them all agape. Nearer his presence Adam, though not awed, Yet with submiss approach and reverence meek, As to...
Page 91 - The present constitution of our country is, to the constitution under which she flourished five hundred years ago, what the tree is to the sapling, what the man is to the boy. The alteration has been great. Yet there never was a moment at which the chief part of what existed was not old.
Page 323 - Except as provided in this section, this constitution shall not impair any right which the queen may be pleased to exercise by virtue of Her Royal prerogative to grant special leave of appeal from the High Court to Her Majesty in council. The parliament may make laws limiting the matters in which such leave may be asked, but proposed laws containing any such limitation shall be reserved by the governor-general for Her Majesty's pleasure.
Page 322 - The House of Representatives shall be composed of members directly chosen by the people of the Commonwealth, and the number of such members shall be, as nearly as practicable, twice the number of the senators.