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&AJAI * RAMMOHUN' ROY ON THE GOVERNMENT ANtf RELIGION OF INDIA * .
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Every one who directs his attention towards Indian affairs prepares himself to be astonished at all things , past and present , which relate to them ; and with sufficient reason . What is there
more astonishing , than the audacity with which a company of merchants took advantage of the dissensions and superstitious terrors of the numerous princes and chiefs of a mighty region , to issue from the factories which they had been graciously permitted to establish , and , in the guise of military authorities * subdue province after province to their absolute dominion ? What is there more astonishing than that the British government , most
righteously scandalized at the means by which the Company acquired and maintained its power , should express its displeasure by transferring some of this ill-gotten and misused dominion to itself ? What is more astonishing , than that the parliament of the nation should sanction this wholesale robbery , by appointing a commission of control over these rapacious merchants , for the purpose of giving the state a share in the booty ? What is more astonishing , than that the rulers of India should assume the character of a
paternal government ^ anxious to secure the welfare of the governed , by a due mixture of Indian and British regulations , and by sending out men of high character to assume the office of guardian of the vast population , and that , under such care as this , poverty should pervade the vast region , oppression work its will in
open day , and the cries of the injured be uttered from generation to generation , as fruitlessly as universally ? It is also by a remarkable sequence of circumstances , that a native of this region , fully informed respecting the capabilities and the woes of its people , has been brought into the presence of the authorities with whom it rests tcT correct Indian abuses . No less remarkable are
his qualifications to give evidence , to make it understood by all the parties concerned , and to offer it in a form which may conciliate prejudice . The method and coolness with which the Rajah arranges and states his facts , in contrast with the rousing nature of those facts , are as remarkable as anything in the whole affair ; and
the courtesy with which he accounts , where he can , for the rise and growth of abuses , will not impede , but hasten the rectification of those abuses . The Rajah appreciates too well the nature and operation of free institutions , not to have felt many a throb of indignation , many a pang of grief , when witnessing the oppressed condition of the ryots of his country ^ and the ^ ferious kinds and de ~
* 1 . Exposition of the practical Qperation of the Judicial and Revenue System ? of India * By Rajah Rammohun Roy . London , Smith , Elder , and Co ., 1832 . 2 . Translation of several principal Books , Passages , and Texts of the Veds , and of some controversial works on Brahmuoical Theology * By the same . London , Pax * hurtr Allan . ttnA din .. Ift 3 ** *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 609, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/33/
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