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Title: Europe since 1815
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hazen, Charles Downer, 1868-
Subjects: Europe -- History 1789-1900
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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; about 67 millionslive in native states under native rulers, the ProtectedPrinces of India, of whom there were, a few years ago,nearly seven hundred. For all practical purposes, how-ever, these princes must follow the advice of English officials,or Residents, stationed in their capitals. The people of India, says President Lowell, are nota nation, but a conglomerate of many different races andreligions, often side by side in the same place, yet unmixedand sharply separate. It is this, as Seeley pointed out inhis Expansion of England, that has enabled the British toconquer and hold the country. If the inhabitants could acttogether, and were agreed in wanting independence, theycould get it. In short, if they were capable of national self-government, the English would live on a volcano, and theiroccupation would be brief. The Mutiny was suppressed be-cause it was not universal. The Sikhs helped to put down Wait Longiluof frtm. ColIdnial Possi^ssio^ ^ of tRe T ElTlK)PE.iN PQlV^RfSm 1815.
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