...enlightenment to the native population-. There was a time, writes Mr Kaye, when it was our policy " to keep the natives of India in the profoundest possible...and every attempt to diffuse the light of knowledge amongst the people was vehemently opposed and resented." Such, ' happily, was no longer the reigning...

...Wellesley arrived in India we were engaged in a great contest with the French, who were endeavouring to establish a dominant influence in India, and intriguing...in the light of an infernal machine, of course the * A curious illustration of this may be gathered from the records of the Hyderabad Residency. Captain...

...Minto," says WJ Kays, • this dread of the free diffusion of knowledge became a chronic rti^ase," and "every attempt to diffuse the light of knowledge...people, either of our own or the independent states, was vein ently opposed and resented." Captain Sedenham, resident at the nrt of the Nizam of Hyderabad,...

...erect with horror. It was our policy in those days to keep the natives of India in the profoundest state of barbarism and darkness, and every attempt...of knowledge among the people, either of our own or of the independent states, was vehemently opposed and resented." It is thus a fair assessment of the...

...newspapers, but also to any enlightenment whatever. An historian, already alluded to, says : — " It was our policy in those days to keep the natives...Independent States, was vehemently opposed and resented." An illustration of this is gathered from the records of the Hyderabad Residency, and is told by Sir...