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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
410 SOME CONCLUSIONS
who put him where he is, and who may remove him, than
to the advice of the agents in India whom he controls, and
that he will be more influenced by the English agitator
than by the Anglo-Indian subordinate. Indian adminis-
trators may say that a particular course is necessitated by
local conditions. The Secretary of State will say that the
man in the street in England will not understand or give
his approval, and the Indian administrator will go by the
board without appeal. An English Member of Parlia-
ment, holding strong views on an Indian question contrary
to those held by the Secretary of State, may, by express-
ing them with sufficient force, help to remove a Secretary
of State for India from office, or at least make him abandon
or modify his policy. An Anglo-Indian administrator, if
he holds views in opposition to those of the Secretary of
State, will not damage the latter, but he may ruin his own
career, as Sir Bampfylde Fuller ruined his, though events
have shown his views to have been right. Under such
conditions, Englishmen in India cannot be expected to
have confidence in the present plan of ruling India directly
from England.
One very natural result of this system is a resort to
half--measures deporting seditious agitators, and letting
them out again a few months afterwards ; allowing an
agent in Tibet, but not at the capital, only halfway to it,
where he runs every bit as much risk and has one-tenth
part of the practical effect.
Secretaries of State lecture the Indian Government
about the wider view," the " larger Imperial interests,"
and so on ; but administrators in India have a suspicion
that, however broad the views of a Secretary of State may
be, they are probably not much longer than the distance
which separates him from the next General Election. In
any case, whether or no he is looking—as indeed he ought,
under the theory of our Constitution, to be looking—to the
next General Election, he cannot be expected to have the
same length of view as the Indian Government ; for he is,
after all, a bird of passage, in the India Office for a few
years and then not heard of there again. And as to the larger
Imperial interests, most British administrators are aware of
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