“To men of liberal principles and to mankind it is perfectly indifferent whether India is called English or Brahmanical; what they cannot consent to is that the domination be exploitation instead of paternal tutelage.”

Quoted by Nishitha Desai in Lusotopie 2000, p. 474

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