1. The kind of books banned in India 80 years ago that Mr. Ghandi [sic] used to read. 

    The kind of books banned in India 80 years ago that Mr. Ghandi [sic] used to read. 

  2. Never mind the falling rain. Time to puckerow the train. ___________________________ “Fanny, I am cutcha no longer. Surely, you will allow a lover who is pucka, to puckero!” Trevelyan, The Dawk Bungalow (1866). From Hobson-Jobson.

    Never mind the falling rain. Time to puckerow the train.

    ___________________________

    “Fanny, I am cutcha no longer. Surely, you will allow a lover who is pucka, to puckero!”

    Trevelyan, The Dawk Bungalow (1866). From Hobson-Jobson.

  3. “Hence all sepoys were Pandies, and ever will be so called” From Hobson-Jobson.

    “Hence all sepoys were Pandies, and ever will be so called” From Hobson-Jobson.

  4. Lord Curzon, being worshiped by a Hindu woman, presumably representing India.He is eating rice and various curries placed on a banana leaf in traditional manner. Note that the tilak on his forehead denotes that he is a worshiper of Shiva. Cartoon from the Hindu Punch, (1901). Artist unknown. 

    Lord Curzon, being worshiped by a Hindu woman, presumably representing India.He is eating rice and various curries placed on a banana leaf in traditional manner. Note that the tilak on his forehead denotes that he is a worshiper of Shiva. Cartoon from the Hindu Punch, (1901). Artist unknown. 

  5. Lord Curzon as Varaha, the third Avatar of the Hindu god Krishna slaying the demon, Bankruptcy. It illustrates “his Lordship’s sympathetic and righteous rule.” Cartoon from the Bhimsen, (1899). Artist unknown. 

    Lord Curzon as Varaha, the third Avatar of the Hindu god Krishna slaying the demon, Bankruptcy. It illustrates “his Lordship’s sympathetic and righteous rule.” Cartoon from the Bhimsen, (1899). Artist unknown. 

  6. An indifference to life, and a love of cruelty for cruelty’s sake, are common characteristics of most of the Orientals, and are chiefly conspicuous in the ruling classes.

    — 

    “British India” by Charles Creighton Hazewell, The Atlantic Monthly; November, 1857.

    (Many thanks to @34_1 for the submission.)

  7. An imperialist soliloquy: or why it is dangerous to educate the natives

    “It is a very serious condition which England is approaching in the control of its colonial possessions, particularly in Egypt and India…

    The native press frets and scolds, and we are told now and then how the hatred of the fellahin for the British breaks out in attacks which require bloody punishment. Egypt asks for the right of self-government, while Britain gives it not a particle thereof.

    In India, the condition is more alarming for it is a large country, and not so easily policed and controlled, while the foci of flame are more numerous and dangerous. The people are being educated and education brings its peril. The missionary schools first gave it because it was right and with no consideration of the political effect. Then, the Government out of pure shame, added more schools, perfected the system with utter disregard to the certain effect, for you cannot keep a people in submission to arbitrary power, except they be ignorant. In slavery times, that was understood, and it was a crime to teach slaves to read. As the Hindus are educated in Western ways, they want Western liberty… The Japanese success has encouraged Asiatics to believe that they are competent to rule themselves…”

    From: The Independent, Volume 62 (1907).

  8. The following in a except from an essay published in 1886 which asserts the British right to rule India. 

    In British India there have been military mutinies, but there has been no political insurrection. In an American review the other day, there appeared a furious invective against British rule in India penned by one of the set of people called, I believe, cultivated Baboos, who would be crushed like eggshells, if the protection of the Empire were withdrawn. The best answer to the Baboo, was that his invective could be published with impunity. If most has been said against the British conqueror it is because the British conqueror has allowed most to be said against him.

    The Twentieth Century, Volume 20, (1886).

    Hmm… I’m trying to think where I’ve heard this argument before. Substitute “liberal” for “Baboo”; any occupier for “Empire” and “British”; and any occupied country for “India” and it will immediately sound familiar.

  9. You will find very few Englishmen who have not got an instinctive aversion for the ordinary native of India– the Madrasi or Bengali. They have a sneaking fawning way about them which almost involuntarily excites contempt and disgust and their talk is ever of rupees, annas, and pie…

    A Madrasi, even if wrongly abused, would simply call you his father, and his mother, and his aunt, defender of the poor, and epitome of wisdom, and would take his change out of you in the bazaar accounts.

    — Elder Smith. The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 42. (1880).

  10. Lord Curzon as Sita, the wife of the Hindu god Rama, about to undergo a fiery ordeal to prove his moral purity. It illustrates “his Lordship’s sympathetic and righteous rule.” Cartoon from the Bhimsen, (1899). Artist unknown. 

    Lord Curzon as Sita, the wife of the Hindu god Rama, about to undergo a fiery ordeal to prove his moral purity. It illustrates “his Lordship’s sympathetic and righteous rule.” Cartoon from the Bhimsen, (1899). Artist unknown.