The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . PENCE. 177 and at all great native functions, where the con-gregating of vast multitudes enabled the practicaldemonstration of the advantages of the new civili-zation, the army was paraded and other brilliantfeatures of Christian government added to lendattraction to the occasions. The liquor importsincreased enormously, as also the demand for opium,which had become an important item in the Com-panys trade catalogue. Modern gewgaws, imita-tion gems and pinchbeck jewelr
The cross or the poundWhich? A talk on the modernization of civilization in India with application to the Hindu and Hinduism . PENCE. 177 and at all great native functions, where the con-gregating of vast multitudes enabled the practicaldemonstration of the advantages of the new civili-zation, the army was paraded and other brilliantfeatures of Christian government added to lendattraction to the occasions. The liquor importsincreased enormously, as also the demand for opium,which had become an important item in the Com-panys trade catalogue. Modern gewgaws, imita-tion gems and pinchbeck jewelry caught thenative fancy, and for years the harvest was a richone. Other European nations grew envious, andfinally in the fifties of the present or the pastcentury—whichever it may be—to protect her tradeinterests, England had to abandon the ostensibleguise of a commercial company in India, and takeover the domination avowedly governmental. SoIndia was officially annexed. Meanwhile, the prin-ciple of control has not changed an iota. Englandis in India for revenue only. Yes, you say, but she believes in open 178 POUNDS, SHILLINGS AND PENCE. True, yet practice is not always coincident withprinciple. England, despite the attempted inroads upon hercommerce with India, still has to her .credit seventy-five per cent, of the imports into the Empire, andwith the proportion of the exports from the Empirewhich it has the monopoly of producing, her actualper centage of the whole is as large as that of herimports. On the face of the figures, Englandsbalance of trade with India is eighteen millions ofdollars, but as aside from tea, rice and a few othercommodities for consumption, practically the wholeof the one hundred and twenty-five millions of im-ports from India are in one way or another re-exported by England, her real balance is one of fargreater volume than would appear at a cursoryglance. Through their various channels and spheres ofinfluence, governmental, commercial
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