27 Metaphors for india

'India for the Indians' is a very good cry; it sounds well; but it will not do to push it to its logical issue.

I am not going to expatiate upon that to-night, but it did occur to me in reading all these proceedings that the part of Hamlet was rather omitted, because India after all is the only real Empire.

India is a fertile and favorite field for such work.

IV THE EMPIRE OF INDIA India is a great triangle, 1,900 miles across its greatest length and an equal distance across its greatest breadth.

"Supposing that the British Government wish to retire because India is not a paying concern, what do you think will then be the position of India?" Mr. Gandhi answered: "At that stage surely it is easy to understand that India will then have evolved either outstanding spiritual height or the ability to offer violence, against violence.

"But India," he said, presently in a lower voice, "India is so far awayfrom this little English forest.

It was regulated, and in the end abolished, by act of Parliament; its possessions were taken over by the Crown; the conquests were extended and completed, and India today is a gem in the crown of the British empire.

Last year I told the House that India for a long time to come, so far as my imagination could reach, would be the theatre of absolute and personal government, and that raised some doubts.

The Aryan always was a good listener, and you must remember that India is a very big countrya continent, indeed, with a mixed multitude of 300,000,000 souls, some striving for the unattainable and others hopelessly submerged in bogs of vice, superstition and ignorance.

VII HOW INDIA IS GOVERNED

2. I am now beginning to understand what a vast land India is.

Had India not been an English colony, literature might not have had Kipling's fascinating Jungle Books and Hindu stories.

It meant difference, not of rank, but of tribe and language; and India is not, as we are apt to fancy, a nation: it is a world.

India is the only part of the British Empire where art is still a living reality, a portion of the people's spiritual possessions.

One of the gentlemen was a great reader of voyages and travels, and India suddenly became the subject of discourse.

How India Is Governed VIII.

He might like to read an account of India; but India itself with its burning, shining face would be a mere blank, an endless waste to him.

I will keep a lookout as you told me for Master Dudley's father, but they say India is a bigger place than England, which I don't believe, for we're the grandest nation in the world, and

India has ever been such a country.

Many Indians think (and I agree with them) that India might be a confederation of sovereign states in close alliance with the British Empire and its allies within the space of fifty years or so.

For the American merchant this is a very readable book, warning him to refrain from too hastily investing his capital and enterprise in Indian commerce,India being the most insecure of all countries for foreign commercial undertakings; and in general, there are so many entirely new and startling revelations in it, that, to any one interested in Indian matters, it well repays reading.

India, Canada, Belleisle, the Mississippi, the Philippines, the Havanna, Martinique, Guadaloupethere was no end to our conquests.

India was not the only British settlement for which the growth of our empire compelled Pitt to devise a constitution.

Therein she was perfectly rightshe usually is right in these dreams of empire in so far as they are empiricalfor she seems dimly to have conjectured in these methodical visions, that India was the key to unlock Southern Mesopotamia.

Non-co-operation then is a godsend; it will purify and strengthen India; and a strong India will be a strength to the world as an Indian weak and helpless is a curse to mankind.

27 Metaphors for  india