Rob Edwards
Lord Lytton: “Speech to the Calcutta Legislature” (1878)
Lord Lytton (1831-1891)
Aristocrat who gained popularity as a poet, while also serving in diplomatic posts at Eurpoean capitals
Practiced tolerance towards the native Indians while protecting the supremacy of British Rule
Says that Britain's rule in India needs to focus on justice, uprightness, progressive enlightenment, and good government in the same manner that they are practiced in England
However, it will be hard to implement these policies into an oriental society that has never seen them before
“By enforcing these principles, and establishing these institutions, we have placed, and must permanently maintain ourselves at the head of a gradual but gigantic revolution – the greatest and most momentous social, moral, and religious, as well as political, revolution which, perhaps the world has ever witnessed.”
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