Indian in 1858: A Summary of the Existing Administration- Political, Fiscal and Judicial of British India Together with Laws and Public Documents Relating There to From the Earlist to the Present Time

The object of the following pages is not to multiply these suggestions, or to scrutinize the causes of those calamitous events, which have riveted the interest of all classes of the community in England, on India and its destinies.

Valuable as are the speculations of thoughtful and earnest men, on a question so momentous as that which affects the loss, or the maintenance of British authority in India, it is yet too evident that those speculations have in the present case often rested on a basis of actual knowledge of the past and present circumstances of our Eastern Empire, too slender for the superstructure of theories which it has been called upon to bear.

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