Calcutta Review (Volume 112) downloadPDF, EPUB, MOBI

Calcutta Review (Volume 112) downloadPDF, EPUB, MOBI

Calcutta Review (Volume 112) by University Of Calcutta

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Author: University Of Calcutta
Page Count: 182 pages
Published Date: 17 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235503559
File Name: Calcutta.Review.(Volume.112).pdf
Download Link: Calcutta Review (Volume 112)
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This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1901. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Art. VII.--COLONIAL POLICIES: ASSIMILATION AND AUTONOMY. THE above title is suggested by the article entitled French Administration in Algiers, which has already been published '.in this Review. The writer is evidently a man of great talent and presumably holds some high office in India. The important materials which he has brought forward are suggestive of several grave questions. I wish to say a few words on one of them. But let me mention at the outset that I do not speak of any rights of the native population of India. The question of colonial policy is big enough to be considered apart from our own political outlook. "The end and object," we are told, " of the French Administration of Algeria the Mission of France in North Africa is to the French summed up in the word assimilation.' The colonists are to be assimilated to France, and the natives are to be assimilated to the colonists. Algeria.... is to become part and parcel of France, and its inhabitants of all colours.... and creeds are to be fused.... into the great French nation.... The French are fond of pointing to the work achieved by the old Roman Empire in the same field.... They say.... Algeria will.... be a part of France as Africa and Numidia were parts of Rome.... Among the local officers this ideal is often ignored or disowned. The possibility of it is not ever present with them.... any more than the possibility of 'granting autonomy to the Indians affects the current duties of our merchants and magistrates in India.... But among those who guide the general duties of the country the end which is kept consciously or unconsciously in view is always this same ultimate absorption of Algeria into France." This French ideal at first sight seems to be very attractive. But the writer has adduced...

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