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Page 37
Still , the Empire was developed , India slept in the Middle Ages , the Dominions
lay empty , with foreigners jealously barred out , and even England was full of
slums and unemployment . Only half a million people , the people in the country ...
Still , the Empire was developed , India slept in the Middle Ages , the Dominions
lay empty , with foreigners jealously barred out , and even England was full of
slums and unemployment . Only half a million people , the people in the country ...
Page 107
For at least eighty years England has artificially prevented the development of
India , partly from fear of trade competition if Indian industries were too highly
developed , partly because backward peoples are more easily governed than
civilized ...
For at least eighty years England has artificially prevented the development of
India , partly from fear of trade competition if Indian industries were too highly
developed , partly because backward peoples are more easily governed than
civilized ...
Page 119
Another twenty years along the present line of development , and India will be a
peasant republic linked with England ... we simply hand over our own victims to
new masters who come fresh to the job and have not developed any scruples .
Another twenty years along the present line of development , and India will be a
peasant republic linked with England ... we simply hand over our own victims to
new masters who come fresh to the job and have not developed any scruples .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius Issue 1 of Searchlight books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg, 1941 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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