Badagara, Malabar, 13 January 1934 ... I had just finished my speech at Badagara ...

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The British Empire provided good government, uncorrupt public administration, inter-tribal peace, the rule of law, free trade, the abolition of slavery, famine relief, the abolition of barbaric customs such as suttee and thugee, huge infrastructural advances such as railways, roa …

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It would have been good for British imperialism if its exponents had treated the empire as a mere profit-making concern, and its native peoples as straightforward objects for exploitation.

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