Excerpt from Modern India: A Sketch of the System of Civil Government, to Which Is Prefixed, Some Account of the Natives and Native Institutions Fortunately little question of English politics is now involved in Indian affairs; yet the effect of former political prejudice is by no means altogether obliterated. A set of notions, originating in the days and in the errors of Burke, are, in some degree, traditionally handed down to the pre sent day. The Indian Government having once acquired a bad name, the most absurd stories invented by the Indi press obtain a certain degree of credence, or affectation of credence. It is hardly wonderful that individuals (even members of Parliament) should be found to make nu founded assertions on the subject, but the misfortune is that nine-tenths of the educated classes (in or out of the House) seem to be in no condition to say whether these stories be true or false. I should hope that a very little attention to a very few plain facts will show the antecedent im possibility of most of the fictions so often repeated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.