“There is perhaps no example of any conquest in which the natives have been so completely excluded from all share of the government of their country as in British India…. Foreign conquerors have treated the natives with violence, and often with great cruelty, but none has treated them with so much scorn as we…”

Sir Thomas Munro, in his letter to the Governor-General Lord Hastings in 1817, quoted in "The Monarch musician"
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