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... 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 houses ...
... 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 houses ...
Page 107
... developed , partly because backward peoples are more easily governed than civilized ones . It is a commonplace that the average Indian suffers far more from his own countrymen than from the British . The petty Indian capitalist exploits ...
... developed , partly because backward peoples are more easily governed than civilized ones . It is a commonplace that the average Indian suffers far more from his own countrymen than from the British . The petty Indian capitalist exploits ...
Page 119
... our own victims to new masters who come fresh to the job and have not developed any scruples . But more is involved than the fate of the 66 coloured peoples . Two incompatible visions of life are 119 THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION.
... our own victims to new masters who come fresh to the job and have not developed any scruples . But more is involved than the fate of the 66 coloured peoples . Two incompatible visions of life are 119 THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION.
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