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Mons. Sismondi on the Political, Moral and Religious State of the British Possessions in India.
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Birmingham , Sir , January 28 , 18 ^ 5 . LATE number of the Revue A JEncycloptdique , published at Paris , contains a valuable paper , written by the celebrated Sismondi , on the state of our vast possessions in India . The article is a review of two
English publications on the same subject , which are full of the most enlightened views and important infor * mation . * The following extract from the review , will , I trust , be deemed worthy of a place in t \\ e Monthly
Repository ; the readers of which will be not a little interested in learnirig what is thought by foreigners of talent and disinterestedness on a subject which so deeply involves our national character as the friends of humanity and civilization . The extract closes with a tribute of admiration to the great and virtuous Rammohun Roy .
How important is it that the East Indies should attract the public attention I This immense empire comprehends the most populous and the richest part of Asia : with its subjects and its vassals , it contains nearly eighty millions of inhabitants : and as
the-English have all the advantages to be derived from superiority in the arts of warfare and government , it may perhaps extend over the rest of Asia . Nevertheless , a law which would injure the interests of Bristol or
Manchester would much sooner inflame the British nation , than if it overwhelmed the whole of India . This is not surprising : Hindostan is separated from England by the whole terrestrial globe . The , accounts which
• Two Letters to Sir O . Forbes ion the Suppression of Public Discussion in India , &c . 1824 . Richardson , Cornhill . Reprinted in the Oriental Herald for Aug . —An Inquiry into the Expediency Of the Colonial System for the Government pf India . 1822 . Ricfcardson ,
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are received from thence are often six months in arriving : the communications between the inhabitants of the two countries are so expensive as to became rare : a long and difficult study is necessary in order to have an idea of the organization of a country so
completely different from any with which we are acquainted ; arid this study is rendered still more difficult from the number of words and names , drawn from the unknown languages of India , which we cannot succeed in pronouncing , and which we cannot easily remember .
Many English , undoubtedly , go to India , but scarce one in ten escapes the pernicious influence of the climate ; scarce one in ten returns to his native country with a fortune bought at the expense of health and activity , which have given place to languor and weakness . These veterans of India form .
however , almost the only individuals who understand sufficiently the affairs of India to take a lively interest in them . Lastly , the India Companywhich is placed between the nation and its subjects , which forbids all
colonization to the English , and has long prohibited all commerce , so that England has hardly any advantages from its immense Asiatic possessions — has succeeded in making the English almost completely uninterested in the affairs of India .
Nevertheless , in spite of all these disadvantages , the public opinion of England has still a good effect upon India . It is a lighthouse , whose rays can hardly pierce the darkness at so immense a distance ; although they point out some rocks wherever they do penetrate . The social system of Hindostan is little better than that
of the West Indies ; but it is advancing . The good which has been done in India , has been demanded from power by public opinion : greater good is and will be demanded for it still . The national wishes with regard to India are still confused and feebler ,
Mons. Sismondi On The Political, Moral And Religious State Of The British Possessions In India.
Mons . Sismondi on the Political , Moral and Religious State of the British Possessions in India .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1825, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2533/page/1/
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