England and India

Excerpt from England and India: An Essay on the Duty of Englishmen Towards the Hindoos While thus adding to our wealth, they will also add something to our military strength. For if they become contented and loyal, if the native army is as faithful as the high-caste and Mahommedan army of Bengal was faithless, it will be available to protect our commerce along the Indo Chinese' coasts, in China, and in Japan; and will even act in any emergency on the shores of the Persian Gulf, or at the Cape of Good H0pe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.