tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891023.post4981688695807156992..comments2024-03-27T15:07:58.078+05:30Comments on Plus Ultra: The debriefing sessionsRajhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09367344161081393779noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891023.post-85837031015565533672011-05-04T10:27:53.350+05:302011-05-04T10:27:53.350+05:30Ramesh, I found it amazing too that a young office...Ramesh, I found it amazing too that a young officer was so perceptive as to catch the pulse of the native sentiment. <br /><br />About your concluding line, all I can say is, my extensive reading of the material available on Google Books ( on the British india period) has given me a sense of balance. Yes, terrible things were done by the Britis exercisting what they called as the 'rights of the conqueror", but for every ruthless guy, there was also a compassionate guy who genuinely wanted to bring in better lives for the natives.<br /><br />Debu: Corruption has been part of our DNA, I guess.Rajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09367344161081393779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891023.post-13120816258114239152011-05-04T09:57:06.825+05:302011-05-04T09:57:06.825+05:30"their moral capacity has been much doubted; ...<i>"their moral capacity has been much doubted; but under an arbitrary government, where every man who holds a public situation was supposed to be necessarily corrupt in extent to his powers, and was treated as if he had been, whether innocent or not, there was no encouragement to morality or virtue, and a man who could not escape the suspicion of corruption, would endeavour to have the sweets of it." </i><br /><br />Interesting...Looks like corruption was a way of life in India even as early as in 1832.Debunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15891023.post-74770148037715392272011-05-03T22:46:30.859+05:302011-05-03T22:46:30.859+05:30raj i am astounded by what i read .. i don't k...raj i am astounded by what i read .. i don't know if you were as affected as me when I read this, but i was left amazed by the sheer foresightedness of this guy .. everything of the future was interpreted by this fellow, like introduction of english, gradual absorption of indian officials etc .. i don't know but sometime i think that if the britishers hadn't come we would have become a min asian africa .. with tonnes of small states, dictators and povertyRameshnoreply@blogger.com