The Bankruptcy of India: An Enquiry Into the Administration of India Under ...
The Bankruptcy of India: An Enquiry Into the Administration of India Under ...
H M Henry Mayers Hyndman
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Unfortunately the Commission has come to the conclusion that neither now nor later can the number of European troops in India be brought below 60,000. This, though possibly a right, is certainly a regrettable decision ; for the European force is that which inflates the military charges of India so inordinately. If the question is asked, Why, when the Afghan war was over, was not the army reduced ? the reply is, Look at the danger from the native princes. An extraordinary array has been made of ...the armies of our feudatories, and 300,000 or 400,000 men with hundreds of guns have been paraded up and down the columns of English journals, as if some new or unsuspected peril had suddenly been flashed upon us. Such ' scares ' are both impolitic and silly. They fill the native princes with an undue sense of their own importance, and at the 144 THE BANKRUPTCY OF INDIA. same time give them the impression that we wish to treat them unfairly. If we really have ground to distrust the native States — and it is possible, though it seems most unlikely, that
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