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James Silk Buckingham. APPEAL OF A GOVERNOR GENERAL TO PUBLIC OPINION IN INDIA . " The grand remedy for the defects of government is to let in upon them pub- licity and censure . " - MILL'S HIST . OF BRItish India . WHEN the Prospectus ...
James Silk Buckingham. APPEAL OF A GOVERNOR GENERAL TO PUBLIC OPINION IN INDIA . " The grand remedy for the defects of government is to let in upon them pub- licity and censure . " - MILL'S HIST . OF BRItish India . WHEN the Prospectus ...
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... Buckingham without a trial , from his property , connexions , and lawful pursuits in India , found it necessary to attempt at least to calm the public indignation , which had been excited by this act , by issuing to all the principal ...
... Buckingham without a trial , from his property , connexions , and lawful pursuits in India , found it necessary to attempt at least to calm the public indignation , which had been excited by this act , by issuing to all the principal ...
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James Silk Buckingham. During this period , a great deal of uncertainty existed , as to the extent of freedom which the Indian Press could be said really to enjoy . At the date of my establishing the Calcutta Journal , there was no ...
James Silk Buckingham. During this period , a great deal of uncertainty existed , as to the extent of freedom which the Indian Press could be said really to enjoy . At the date of my establishing the Calcutta Journal , there was no ...
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... BUCKINGHAM . After this narrative of facts , it will be well to examine some of the opinions expressed in the ... Buckingham's writings were from the very commencement distinguished by " virulence and wanton personality ; " yet it offers ...
... BUCKINGHAM . After this narrative of facts , it will be well to examine some of the opinions expressed in the ... Buckingham's writings were from the very commencement distinguished by " virulence and wanton personality ; " yet it offers ...
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James Silk Buckingham. the enactment of laws that would punish such complaint with the same severity , he sits down to rake up every part of this banished individual's writings for a period of five years preceding , so as to add to the ...
James Silk Buckingham. the enactment of laws that would punish such complaint with the same severity , he sits down to rake up every part of this banished individual's writings for a period of five years preceding , so as to add to the ...
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Page 130 - Landholders have since, by constantly improving their estates, been able to increase their produce, in general very considerably ;* whereas, prior to that period, and under former Governments, their forefathers were obliged to lay waste the greater part of their estates, in order to make them appear of inferior value, that they might not excite the cupidity of Government, and thus cause their rents to be increased or themselves to be dispossessed of their lands, — a pernicious practice which often...