 | 1891 - 590 страница
...and captains of roving bands. The Indian people were an immense mixed multitude swaying to and fro, and clinging to any power, natural or supernatural,...discharge the most elementary functions of government. In short the people were scattered and without a leader, while the whole country was in the lowest stage... | |
 | Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall - 1893 - 320 страница
...revolted governors, rebellious chiefs, leaders of insurgent tribes or sects, religious revivalists, or captains of mercenary bands. The Indian people were...authority by any one who could show himself able to j discharge the most elementary functions of government in the preservation of life and property. In... | |
 | 1907 - 584 страница
...revolted governors, rebellious chiefs, leaders of insurgent tribes or sects, religious revivalists, or captains of mercenary bands. The Indian people were...supernatural, that seemed likely to protect them." The opportunity for a strong European race to make itself that protecting and masterful power had been... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - 1907 - 588 страница
...revolted governors, rebellious chiefs, leaders of insurgent tribes or sects, religious revivalists, or captains of mercenary bands. The Indian people were...and clinging to any power, natural or supernatural, e'r"St "" that seemed likely to protect them." The opportunity %%%£ for a strong European race to... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1910 - 442 страница
...revolted governors, rebellious chiefs, leaders of insurgent tribes or sects, religious revivalists, or captains of mercenary bands. The Indian people were...multitude swaying to and fro in the political storm, 1 March, 1739. and clinging to any power, natural or supernatural, that seemed likely to protect them.... | |
 | 1915 - 256 страница
...In the pregnant words of Sir Alfred Lyall, the Indian people " were becoming a masterless multitude prepared to acquiesce in the assumption of authority...government in the preservation of life and property." Such were the conditions existing over a vast territory, and out of the welter British BIKANER COLONEL... | |
 | Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley - 1917 - 342 страница
...might be destroyed by the loss of one campaign or even a single battle." As regards the people, they " were becoming a masterless multitude swaying to and...government in the preservation of life and property." British rule. The foregoing observations are sufficient to show that, when the British took over the... | |
 | Sir Alfred C. Lyall - 1920 - 438 страница
...revolted governors, rebellious chiefs, leaders of insurgent tribes or sects, religious revivalists, or captains of mercenary bands. The Indian people were...multitude swaying to and fro in the political storm, • March, 1739. and clinging to any power, natural or supernatural, that seemed likely to protect... | |
 | Thomas R. Metcalf - 1997 - 264 страница
...adventurers'. In the 'anarchy' that resulted during the eighteenth century the Indian people were left a 'masterless multitude swaying to and fro in the...supernatural, that seemed likely to protect them'. In short, Lyall concluded, 'the people were scattered without a leader or protector; while the political... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1913 - 1220 страница
...of helpless chaos. The people, in Sir Alfred Ly all's words, " were becoming a masterless multitude prepared to acquiesce in the assumption of authority...Government in the preservation of life and property." Such was the internal situation which made it inevitable that, should any vigorous Western Power acquire... | |
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... captains of mercenary bands. The Indian people were becoming a masterless multitude swaying to and fro in the political storm, and clinging to any power, natural or supernatural, that seemed likely to protect them. They were prepared to acquiesce... 