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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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higher moral nature to which we have attained in the develop-
ment of the human race.
What, for instance, was the power by which six British
officers shut up in Chitral fort, hundreds of miles from the
nearest British soldier, and with only native troops to rely on,
were able to evoke such attachment from these men of the
very same races who had, forty or fifty years before, fought
desperately against the British, that those men stood by them
for seven long weeks, against thousands of the enemy, till
succour came? And how was it that the few British officers
under Colonel Kelly were able, without the assistance of a
single British soldier, and with none but these same men of
India who had formerly opposed us so resolutely, to afford
that timely succour to the Chitral garrison? Englishmen at
home must often have wondered how this is done, and those
who have been in the position of having to rely upon this
power, whatever it is, have equally wondered what it can be.
It cannot be solely because he is more brave than the
men he controls that the Englishman is able to carry on this
work, for there are races in India scarcely less brave than the
English. Few races on the earth can excel in bravery the
Sikhs and the Gurkhas, and no amount of bravery alone
would have preserved the British officers in the Chitral fort.
Nor can it be because the Englishman is able to pay the
men to do as he wishes; for he does not pay them; they pay
themselves. He does not take a single shilling from England
to pay the natives of India to fight for him; he, in fact, makes
the natives of India pay him. Every English officer and
soldier receives his pay from revenue drawn from the natives
of India; so the Englishman does not pay the natives to
fight for him, but they actually pay him to control them!
There must, therefore, be some other means by which we in
India are able to hold so great an empire by such apparently
inadequate methods, and to my mind it seems that the chief,
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