 | Asia - 1840
...original, and which almost outrages humanity. Considered merely in a literary capacity," Mr. Wilson adds, " the description of the Hindus, in the History of British...obvious unfairness and injustice ; but in the effects it is likely to' exercise upon the connexion between the people of England and the people of India,... | |
 | James Mill - Hindus - 1858 - 424 pages
...humanity. As he represents them, the Hindus are not only on a par with the least civilized nations of the Old and New World, but they are plunged almost...the effects which it is likely to exercise upon the counexion between the people of England and the people of India, it is chargeable with more than literary... | |
 | T. W. Hutchison - Business & Economics - 1978 - 376 pages
...portrait of the Hindus which has no resemblance to the original and which almost outrages humanity. . . The History of British India is open to censure for...the effects which it is likely to exercise upon the connection between the people of England and the people of India, it is chargeable with more than literary... | |
 | Carol A. Breckenridge, Peter van der Veer - History - 1993 - 376 pages
...against its rash statements based on insufficient evidence and its "evil tendency" to depict Hindus as "plunged almost without exception in the lowest depths of immorality and crime," which is "calculated to destroy all sympathy between the rulers and the ruled." Wilson then ventures... | |
 | Martin Bernal - History - 2001 - 580 pages
...superficiality and inaccuracy of most of Mill's attacks on Indian culture. In his preface Wilson wrote: Considered merely in a literary capacity, the description...obvious unfairness and injustice; but in the effects that it is likely to exercise upon the connexion between the people of India, it is chargeable with... | |
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