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Effects of Colonialism: In the middle of the 1857 uprising, the Governor-General Lord Canning wrote to a British official : As we must rule 150 millions of people by a handful (more or less small) of Englishmen, let us do it in the manner best calculated to leave them divided....
...(as in religion and national feeling they already are) and to inspire them with the greatest possible awe of our power and with the least possible suspicion of our motives.
Even a “liberal” governor such as Elphinstone wrote in 1859, “Divide et impera [‘divide & rule’ in Latin] was the old Roman motto & it should be ours.”In this clash of two civilizations, the European, younger, dynamic, hungry for space & riches, appeared far better fitted....
![Even a “liberal” governor such as Elphinstone wrote in 1859, “Divide et impera [‘divide & rule’ in Latin] was the old Roman motto & it should be ours.”In this clash of two civilizations, the European, younger, dynamic, hungry for space & riches, appeared far better fitted....](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Em3PJ1oUUAQRRjG.jpg "Even a “liberal” governor such as Elphinstone wrote in 1859, “Divide et impera [‘divide & rule’ in Latin] was the old Roman motto & it should be ours.”In this clash of two civilizations, the European, younger, dynamic, hungry for space & riches, appeared far better fitted....")
...than the Indian, half decrepit, almost completely dormant after long centuries of internal strife & repeated onslaught. The contrast was so huge that no one doubted the outcome—the rapid conquest of the Indian mind & life. The tide of colonialism should be reversed.
