The Views and Opinions of Brigadier-General John Jacob (Classic Reprint)

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The foregoing observations apply equally to the papers upon civil and upon military matters. But it is upon their application to the latter that I propose to remark: for it is but too manifest that our existing military system in India has failed; and that if England still purpose to hold India, she must do so by means either of undisguised English military occupation, or of a N ative army re-organised on sound and lasting principles.

Choosing the former course, we must be prepared to maintain in India an English force as large as, or larger than, we were able to maintain in the Crimea; to acknowledge before all the world that our rule in India is based, not on the goodwill of the governed, but upon palpable military occupation to maintain our English army in India, still undi minished, in the event of an European war to increase this army in the contingency of our Euro pean enemies extending their influence into Asia; to drain beyond the drain already involved in our government as foreigners) India of that weal th which is now returned to her in the form of pay and pensions to a vast N ative military establishment; and, lastly, to create and provide for discontent among a large section of our Indian subjects who now trust to the military profession for subsistence.

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