The Administration of the East India Company: A History of Indian Progress, Volume 1 |
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Page 391 - no native of the said territories, nor any natural born subject of His Majesty resident therein, shall, by reason only of his religion, place of birth, descent, colour, or any of them, be disabled from holding any place, office, or employment, under the said Company.
Page 72 - ... and shall from time to time suggest such alterations as may in their opinion be beneficially made in the said Courts of Justice and police establishments, forms of judicial procedure and laws, due regard being had to the distinction of castes, difference of religion, and the manners and opinions prevailing among different races and in different parts of the said territories.
Page 565 - His Lordship in Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India ; and that all the funds appropriated for the purposes of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Page 93 - An Act for establishing certain " regulations for the better management of the affairs of the East India " company, as well in India as in Europe...
Page 461 - Who without bloodshed or the terror of authority, Employing only the means of conciliation, confidence, and benevolence, Attempted and accomplished The entire subjection of the lawless and savage inhabitants of the...
Page 97 - Mr Pitt moved for leave to bring in a bill for the better government and management of the affairs of the East India company.
Page 565 - But it is not the intention of His Lordship in Council to abolish any College or School of native learning. While the native population shall appear to be inclined to avail themselves of the advantages which it affords...
Page 393 - ... of the natives, to some extent in exclusion of them, has been maintained ; certain offices are appropriated to them, from certain others they are debarred — not because these latter belong to the covenanted service, and the former do not belong to it, but professedly on the ground that the average amount of native qualifications can be presumed only to rise to a certain limit.
Page 393 - Hayleybury, but the meaning of the enactments we take to be, that there shall be no governing Caste in British India, that whatever other tests of qualification may be adopted, distinctions of race or religion shall not be of the number...
Page 98 - Committee shall, from time to time, upon receipt of any such secret orders and instructions concerning the levying of war or making of peace, or treating or negotiating with any of the native princes or states of India...