Excerpt from The Makers of British India
In the following pages I have endevoured to tell the story - which can never be spoiled by over-much telling - of the rise and growth of our Indian Empire, in such wise that it may be intelligible to the general reader, while compressed within moderate limits. It is not easy to combine comprehensiveness with conciseness; and in the process of condensation something of the interest of the narrative may unavoidably be lost; yet I hope that I have not wholly suppressed the fascination that seems to me to belong to one of the most romantic chapters in the world's history. Deeply impressed myself by the wonderfulness of the foundation and expansion of our dominion in India, and keenly sensible of the boundless courage, resolution, and patient energy of the men who, assisted by favouring circumstances, have asserted the supremacy of Britain over two hundred millions of Asiatics, I trust I have so recited the tale as to excite in the readers mind not dissimilar feelings.
Within the last quarter of a century the attention of Englishmen has begun to be directed towards their Indian possessions; but their history is not, I venture to say, so widely known as it ought to be, in spite of the labours of Mill, Orme, Kaye, Marshman, H. H. Wilson, Malleson, Sir W. Hunter, and others. I think it will seldom be found included in the curriculum of our schools in which the history of Greece or Rome is invariably conspicuous.
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