The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, Vol. 2: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction In order to enable the house to adept the most proper means for regulating the British govern ment in India, and for promoting the happiness of the natives, who live under its authority or ih ¿uence, your committee hold it expedient to collect, into distinct points of view, the circum stances, by which that government appears to them to be most essentially disordered, and to explain fully the principles of policy, and the course of conduct, by which the natives of all ranks and orders have been reduced to their pre sent state of depression and misery. Your committee have endeavoured to perform this task in lain and popular language, knowing that nothing has alienated the house from enquiries, absolum necessary for the performance of one of the most essential of all its duties, so much as the technical language of the company's records, as the Indian names of persons, of offices, of the tenure and qualities of estates, and of all the varied branches of their intricate revenue. This language is, indeed, of necessary use in the executive depart ments of the company's affairs, but it is not neces sary to parliament. A language, so foreign from all the ideas and habits of the far greater part of the members of this house, has a tendency to dis gust them with all sorts of enquiry concerning this subject. They are fatigued into such a despair of ever obtaining a competent knowledge of the trans actions ia India, that they are easily persuaded to remand them back to that obscurity, mystery, and intrigue, out of which they have been forced u n publiclt notice by the calamities arising from tiizir extreme mismanagement. This mismanagement has itself (as your committee conceive) in a great measure arisen from dark cabals, and secret sug. 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.