Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c51.s4.6

v4.c51.s4.6

The new system was a valuable military growth no doubt; but it was an exotic and could not take root in the Indian soil, so long as the Indians did not heartily accept and universally spread western knowledge and the western spirit. From this fact follows the further need of modern India adopting western industrial methods and producing on the soil modernised officers and modern munitions, so as to possess within her own bosom an inexhaustible reserve of all that a New Model Army requires.