Celebrated Trials in India Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...effect: --In enacting the CoiTsent Act, the English have been drawn into the vortex of circumstances and have been obliged to cast off both the mask and the slough. Now stands before us the severe, terrible, disgusting, naked form of the Englishman. Our heart trembles at the sight of this form. As Sita was stupified on seeing the great ascetic, wearing the guise of a mendicant, transform himself suddenly in the ten headed, twenty eyed King of the Rakshasas, so have we been stupified by fear, by wonder, by contempt, by insult. Oh Rama. Oh Rama what terrible form. How fearful is its attitude. And in that attitude how violent the dance and how deadly the subdued laugh which reverberates through half the universe The leering eyes perpetually revolve like the burning wheel in the Potter's Kiln and with a thousand tongue in Mlechcha languages, with such words as pleases it, it is roaring incessantly. Oh Madhu Sudana, King of Kings. Is this our ruler?" After much more in thi-i strain as to the fearful form of the Ruler who "slander the Hindus from the might of the gun" and so on, the article goes on to say that the Hindu religion cannot be destroyed, though the chief fear is that it will be and that the attempt to destroy it has rendered clear the policy of the English." The next issue from which extracts were read is that of the 16th May last, the article being headed. "An outspoken Policy is the best for uncivilized persons." The effect of this article is that fever, cholera and other severe diseases are allowed to spread amongst the Natives, innundations take place throuirh embankments put up by the English giving way; peoplejarc ruined by the procedure followed in English law Courts, steamers, and Railway trains managed by English...