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within a circuit of a hundred mites , scarcely a single peasant who is in possession of the common comforts of life ? They will turn away from us , and go on refusing to eat beef as long as nothing better than rice is offered them ; they will lay at our door the ravages of the pestilence , that has swept them away by millions , - —( and how far the imputation may be just , it will be well for us to
consider ;) they will look with an evil eye on our government , and vent their murmurs in secret against our religion , till the one has given them justice , and the other has extended to them her charity . All who are not too ignorant to be moved * or so interested as to be bought , will continue to be disaffected , and our mismanagement will be found to have imposed on us the double task of winning their allegiance and repairing their wrongs .
The best hope for India is that , as a consequence of the breaking up of the monopoly which has so long injured both countries , English settlers will hasten to establish themselves within her bounds , and to affix a new and higher value to her land and la- * bour , by the investment of a large portion of British capital in both . We are sorry to observe , that while the Rajah admits the benefit already derived from the settlement of British capitalists
in India , and the desirableness of extending this species of re * source , he fears the consequences of introducing English labourers among a people with whom , he thinks , they could never agree . We are as far as himself from wishing that ship-loads of emigrants should set out at random for Iudia , as they too often do for Canada , not knowing what to do or expect when they get there , and unprepared for any difficulties arising from newness of scene * ,
climate , and intercourse ; but we do wish that the vast resources of India should be better husbanded than by the uninstructed natives ; and fully believe that it would be easy to convince them speedily that they would gain much and lose nothing by British colonization ; that , to use the words of the Rajah , it would greatly improve the resources of the country , and also the con * , dition of the native inhabitants , by showing them superior
methods of cultivation , and the proper mode of treating their labourers and dependents . ' The impediments to amicable intercourse between the lower classes of the English and the natives , we hold to have arisen out of the tenure by which our Indian empire has been held , and the abuses to which it has given occasion . Establish this empire on a right footing , rectify these abuses , and intercourse with the natives may become as advantageous as it has hitherto been irksome .
We will not say that other such friends as the author of the work before us may arise throughout India ; for the Rajah Rammohun Roy is a man of a thousand years ; but many of his countrymen may soon follow hi « lead in investigating the sources cfrf Indian grievances , and candidly referring them to their real origin ; in appreciating whatever is vfiriaabla in us am a nation ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 614, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/38/
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