Romances of empire, Romantic orientalism and Anglo-India: contexts, historical and literary
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Of all the unparalleled features which the English Empire in India presents, not one is so unique as the slightness of the machinery by which it is united to England, and the slightness of its reaction upon England. She (England) tries to raise India out of the medieval into the modern phase, and in the task she meets with difficulties and incurs dangers, but she incurs no risk whatever from being drawn down by India towards the lower level, or even being checked for a moment in her natural development.J. R. Seeley, The Expansion of England (1883)
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Of all the unparalleled features which the English Empire in India presents, not one is so unique as the slightness of the machinery by which it is united to England, and the slightness of its reaction upon England. She (England) tries to raise India out of the medieval into the modern phase, and in the task she meets with difficulties and incurs dangers, but she incurs no risk whatever from being drawn down by India towards the lower level, or even being checked for a moment in her natural development.J. R. Seeley, The Expansion of England (1883)
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