British Raj Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about British Raj.
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“British India... was as much infected by caste as Indian India.”
“We divide and you rule. The moment we decide not to divide you will not be able to rule.”
“To me it is frankly inconceivable that India will ever be fit for Dominion self-government.”
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“The India of the Raj stood forth as a model, not only for the empire, but for Britain itself.”
“The Government of India is the most arduous and perhaps the noblest trust ever undertaken by a nation.”
“India’s independence “can be dated to the 1840s, when calls for independence from the British began.”
“Mohammedanism has the only organization and pretty nearly the only ambition hostile to us that is left in India.”
“As long as we rule India, we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straight away to a third-rate Power.”
“Everyone knows that if the people of India could be unanimous for a day, they might sweep us from their country as dust before a whirlwind.”
“India was the pivot of our Empire. If this Empire lost any other part of its dominion we could survive, but if we lost India, the sun of our Empire would be set.”
“It was time to put a stop to the growing idea that England ought to pay tribute to India as a kind of apology for having conquered her: & you have done it effectively.”
“As to action the matter is simple: India is held by the sword: and its rulers must in all essentials be guided by the maxims which benefit the Government of the sword.”
“Our nations have mutually destroyed each other on that very soil where we went to collect nothing but money, and where the first Greeks travelled for nothing but knowledge.”
“The rulers whom we supplanted were, like ourselves, aliens and usurpers. We found the Hindoos a conquered people, and, little by little, we substituted one yoke for another.”