The Black Hole of Empire by Chatterjee Partha;

Author:Chatterjee, Partha;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

It is worth pointing out here that Sleeman was strongly suspicious of those Evangelical liberals who were keen to annex every piece of territory in India.

There is a school in India, happily not yet much patronised by the Home Government nor by the Governor-General, but always struggling with more or less success for ascendancy. It is characterised by impatience at the existence of any native State, and its strong and often insane advocacy of their absorption—by honest means, if possible—but still, their absorption. There is no pretext, however weak, that is not sufficient, in their estimation, for the purpose; and no war, however cruel, that is not justifiable, if it has only this object in view.61

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