Richard Temple citations

“But for a long time to come the prime movers in these operations must continue to be European. And we hope that a great Christian, and if we may use the term, ecclesiastical army will be raised, the rank and file consisting of natives, while the captains and generals are highly qualified Europeans.”

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Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet

"Oriental experience; a selection of essays and addresses delivered in various occasions" in Shourie, Arun (1994). Missionaries in India: Continuities, changes, dilemmas. New Delhi : Rupa & Co, 1994 https://archive.org/stream/orientalexperien00tempuoft/orientalexperien00tempuoft_djvu.txt

“Now, India presents the greatest of all fields for missionary exertion, greater even than China.”

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Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet

“It is commonly said that it was the Mahomedans whom the British displaced as rulers in India. This is true only in a restricted sense. It would be nearer the truth to say that it was the Mahrattas in the main, whom we displaced.”

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Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Temple quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)