Chapter VI: Part 6

[Sidenote: 60. The Same.] The responsibility for India is, indeed, a great one. It is idle to ask whether our forefathers should have assumed it. We could not withdraw now without throwing India into disorder, and causing untold suffering among three hundred million of our fellow human beings. Yet the administration of such an Empire calls for virtues in our race certainly not less than those needed for our own self-government. Above all, we require knowledge of India, and sympathy with the points of view begotten of oriental history.

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LIST OF VICEROYS OF INDIA SINCE THE TRANSFER
OF THE ADMINISTRATION FROM THE EAST INDIA
COMPANY TO THE CROWN IN 1858.

VISCOUNT CANNING, to 1862
March,

EARL OF ELGIN, 1862-3

SIR JOHN LAWRENCE, 1864-9

EARL OF MAYO, 1869-72

LORD NORTHBROOK, 1872-6

LORD LYTTON, 1876-80

MARQUESS OF RIPON, 1880-84

EARL OF DUFFERIN, 1884-88

MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE, 1888-94

EARL OF ELGIN, 1894-99

LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, 1899-1905

EARL OF MINTO, 1905-1910

LORD HARDINGE, 1910

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NOTE (I).—Many of the artistic and other objects mentioned in the preceding pages can be better appreciated after a visit to the Indian Museum at South Kensington.

NOTE (II).—The thanks of the Committee are due for a few of the slides to Colonel Frederick Firebrace, R.E., Managing Director of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company, and to Mr. A. L. Hetherington, of the Board of Education.

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