Author: Josiah Clement WedgwoodPublisher:
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The Future of the Indo-British Commonwealth
Author: Josiah Clement WedgwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The Future of the Indo-British Commonwealth (Classic Reprint)
Author: Josiah Clement WedgwoodPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332195780
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Excerpt from The Future of the Indo-British Commonwealth I had the opportunity of reading the manuscript of this little book. I was so impressed with its outlook that I have asked leave to write a few lines on the subject. To the whole of the diagnosis of the present state of affairs throughout the British Empire, I do not profess to commit myself. I do not know enough, and I do not think anyone can know enough, to be certain of all the ground. What interests me is the breadth of outlook, and a certain quality in the estimate of results, amounting to brilliance. The author sees, as others of us do, that the great war has precipitated what was already in solution. There is now a definite residuum which was not distinctly observable earlier. This is likely, not only to increase, but to be of increasing importance. For the rest, thatfrom which the precipitation has come is growing clearer. For alarm, I doubt whether there is any real cause at all. The process in operation to-day is one which has been as unavoidable as it has been natural. It is only if we are narrow minded and try to interfere artificially with What we cannot safely endeavour to arrest, that danger is likely to arise. The age is one of a tendency which has become both obvious and universal. But it is taking effect within the limits of human nature - human nature, which is everywhere in the main the same, and which history has shown to be in the end dominating for good when not interfered with. What we have to do is to cultivate in our selves and in our neighbours the larger outlook upon our national lines. We all need more knowledge, intellectual and spiritual. Both fall within the forms of knowledge, and without both the world will remain incomplete. The change which is coming is not greater than that which Christianity introduced nearly two thousand years ago. Then many were alarmed, for reasons which were to prove so misplaced that we have now forgotten them. To-day the world is moving nearly as rapidly. One has only to live in London at the present time in order to become aware of the fact. What is extreme in some phases of new movements is steadily losing its sharp edges as democracy grows. We are learning that democracy is in the main conservative in tendency. That is because it appears as cautious, in this country certainly, wherever it does not know and is therefore not convinced. Only when it is thwarted in what it is striving towards, does it become alert and aggressive. Now it does not seem as if to-day democracy, here at least, were striving after anything very dangerous or even definite. What it asks for is more knowledge, for itself and for its rulers, and more knowledgehas not in the past resulted in violent action. It is narrowness of view, arising from the lack of the larger outlook, that the history of the past shows to have caused danger of violent action. 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.
The Future of the Indo-British Commonwealth
Author: Josiah C. Wedgwood WedgwoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9780649210527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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The Future of the Indo-British Commonwealth
Author: Josiah Clement Wedgwood WedgwoodPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781347392591
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Future of the Indo-British Commonwealth
Author: Josiah C. WedgwoodPublisher:
ISBN: 9780649360307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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The Future of the Indo-British Commonwealth ...
Author: Josiah Clement Wedgwood (Col. the Rt. Hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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The Future of the Indo-British Commonwealth ...
Author: Josiah Clement Wedgwood (baron))Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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Towards an Indo-British Commonwealth
Author: Kailas N. HaksarThe Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East, Vol. 2 of 2
Author: Edward H. NolanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527724662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Excerpt from The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Earliest Times to the Suppression of the Sepoy Mutiny in 1859 Notwithstanding the intrepidity shown by the British in their naval contests with the Portuguese, and the individual darin'g of most of them when danger beset, there was no promise of future military eminence in the composition or character of the first tr00ps raised in Bombay, or in the manage ment of those recruits sent out from England. The officers frequently committed outrages upon the civilians of their own countrymen, and their insolence and abuse of respectable natives was disgraceful to their profession. Some of them were even convicted of acts of petty piracy and robbery in the harbour. The non-commissioned officers unfortunately followed the example so infamously set them. The opinion which the immortal Clive gave of the state of the troops in India, previous to his time and as for the most part he found them when he arrived in India, is borne out by documentary evidence at the India-house, and by the testimony of impartial travellers. Formerly the company's troops consisted of the refuse of our jails, commanded by an officer seldom above the rank of lieutenant, and in one or two instances with that of major; without order, discipline, or military ardour. 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.
The Empire's New Clothes
Author: Philip MurphyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190935006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organized and what has held it together for so long? How important is the Queen's role as Head of the Commonwealth? Most importantly, why has it had such a troubled recent past, and is it realistic to imagine that its fortunes might be reversed?In The Empire's New Clothes,? Murphy strips away the gilded self-image of the Commonwealth to reveal an irrelevant institution afflicted by imperial amnesia. He offers a personal perspective on this complex and poorly understood institution, and asks if it can ever escape from the shadow of the British Empire to become an organization based on shared values, rather than a shared history.