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" The true cure of darkness is the introduction of light. The Hindoos err, because they are ignorant, and their errors have never fairly heen laid before them. "
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Contemporary India: G.R. Bhatkal Memorial Lectures, 1975-1995

Ganesh Ramrao Bhatkal - History - 1998 - 236 pages
...that it was essential to bring the Gospel to the East since Indians were capable of a transformation: "the Hindoos err because they are ignorant; and their errors have never fairly been laid before them." 9 While the linkage of Christianity and the secular European civilization was not inevitable, certainly...
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The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader

Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley, Alan Girvin - Art - 2000 - 532 pages
...earlier in South Asia by colonizers from the other side of the Atlantic. Charles Grant believed that the true curse of darkness is the introduction of...because they are ignorant and their errors have never fairlv been laid before them. The communication of our light and knowledge to them, would prove the...
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Mastering Western Texts: Essays on Literature and Society for A.N. Kaul

A. N. Kaul - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 332 pages
...'sedulously watch over the civil and social happiness' of the subjects. The obligation of government was the 'introduction of light'; the 'Hindoos err because they are ignorant; and their errors have never been fairly laid 31 Ibid., 2, p. 247. '2 Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects...
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Decolonizing Research in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Critical Personal Narratives

Kagendo Mutua, Beth Blue Swadener - Education - 2004 - 302 pages
...1874, India Office Library and Records, London (IOLR), P/186. 10. Charles Grant stated that "Hindus err because they are ignorant, and their errors have...them. The communication of our light and knowledge would prove the best remedy for their disorders"; Charles Grant; Observation on the State of Society...
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Aryans and British India

Thomas R. Trautmann - India - 2005 - 300 pages
...the same kind. T ic true cure of darkness, is the introduction of light. The Hindoos err, b> cause they are ignorant; and their errors have never fairly been laid before tl em. The communication of our light and knowledge to them, would p >ve the best remedy for their...
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The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination

Gautam Chakravarty - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 276 pages
...'sedulously watch over the civil and social happiness' of the subjects. The obligation of government was the 'introduction of light'; the 'Hindoos err because they are ignorant; and their errors have never been fairly laid before them'.4' In India as among the metropolitan poor, education was the key to...
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World Englishes: Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume 1

Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 544 pages
...shelf of a good European library is worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia." Again, "The true curse of darkness is the introduction of...knowledge to them would prove the best remedy for their disorders."23 In President McKinley's view, the solution to the problems in the Philippines was "to...
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The Story of English in India

N. Krishnaswamy, Lalitha Krishnaswamy - Art - 2006 - 240 pages
...during 1771-3. In 1792, he wrote: The true curse of darkness is the introduction of light. The Hindus err because they are ignorant and their errors have...fairly been laid before them. The communication of light and knowledge to them would prove the best remedy for their children and this remedy is proposed...
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Global Issues in Language, Education and Development: Perspectives from ...

Naz Rassool, Kathleen Heugh, Sabiha Mansoor - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 304 pages
...Subjects of Great Britain in 1792, Charles Grant, of the British India Company, argued that: The true cure of darkness is the introduction of light. The Hindoos...communication of our light and knowledge to them would prove to be the best remedy for their disorders. (Cited in Zastoupil & Moir, 1999: 83) Grant advocated the...
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