History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c96.s2.6

v7.c96.s2.6

²⁶³⁵ A well known jibe in the author's youth was that an I. C. S. was neither Indian (almost all were British in those days) nor civil nor a servant (but he was the master of the destinies of poor India). Munro wrote in 1817 a memorandum to Lord Hastings from which two sentences may be quoted ‘there is perhaps no example of any conquest in which the natives have been so completely excluded from all share of the Government of their country as in British India Foreign conquerors have treated the natives with violence and often with great cruelty, but none has treated them with so much scorn as we’ pp 273-74 of ‘the Making of Indian Princes’ (London, 1943) by Edward Thompson Vide G W. Forrest's ‘Selections from the Minutes and other official writings of Elphinstone’ (London, 1884) p 102 for reproach against British rule in India