...the five hundred, and has no motive to plead the cause of the fifty millions. " We know," he says, " that India cannot have a free government ; but she...Memorialists would place her : they call on us to recognize them as a privileged order of freemen in the midst of slaves." In tliis Minute, Mr. Macaulay...

...of the parliament : the passage is a remarkable one, and, doubtless, there is some meaning in it. " We know that India cannot have a free government ;...despotism. The worst state in which she can, possibly, be * See page 3 of Sessional Paper, No. 275, printed in return to an order of the House of Commons, 2d...

...plead the cause of the fifty millions. " We know that India cannot have a free Government. But •he may have the next best thing, — a firm and impartial...recognise them as a privileged order of freemen in the midst of slaves. It was for the purpose of averting this great evil that Parliament, at the same time...

...Press is altogether supported by the five hundred, and has no motive to plead the cause of the fifty millions. " We know that India cannot have a free...impartial despotism. The worst state in which she an possibly be placed is that in which the memorialists would place her. They call on us to recognize...

...the realistic vigor of this analysis. how do we respond to the conclusion of Macaulay's argument?: "We know that India cannot have a free Government. But she may have the next best thing—a firm and impartial despotism." 1 Macaulay in India seems a perfect icon of the "good orator"...

...from maritime aggression, to have a portion of the English army mixed with its sepoys, since he felt 'India cannot have a free government, but she may...the next best thing, a firm and impartial despotism' (Macaulay, 1898: 555-6). That was why he wanted a class of administrators to help the British masters....