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" The physical organization of the Bengalee is feeble, even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy... "
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 17
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860
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Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India

Sikata Banerjee - 2012 - 194 pages
...India Company, (p. 31) The physical organization of the Bengalee is feeble even to Effeminacy. . . . During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds, (pp. 109-10) In British eyes, these feeble effeminate beings required "the straightforwardness of Christian...
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Muslims and Crime: A Comparative Study

Muzammil Quraishi - 2005 - 176 pages
...backbone of the colonial army, the Bengalis became defined as 'feeble, even to effeminacy' for whom 'courage, independence, veracity are qualities to...constitution and his situation are equally unfavourable' (Gordon, 1974)3. Those from southern India were declared to 'fall short, as a race in possessing the...
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Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and ...

Leela Gandhi - 2006 - 270 pages
...organisation of the Bengali," he asservates, "is feeble even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapor bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During the many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence,...
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Warren Hastings: King of the Nabobs

Michael Edwardes - 1976 - 228 pages
...organization of the Bengalee is feeble even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His 20 pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements...and his situation are equally unfavourable. His mind 25 bears a singular analogy to his body. It is weak even to helplessness, for purposes of manly resistance;...
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William Carey: A Biography

Joseph Belcher - 1853 - 324 pages
...feeble even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapor bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs are delicate, his movements languid. During many ages,...bolder and more hardy breeds. Courage, independence, and vivacity, are qualities to which his constitution and his situation are equally unfavorable. His...
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