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Any attempt on the part of educated Indians to unravel the tangled web of Indian history during British supremacy is construed as creating disaffection to the British Government.
We have also to expose many falsehoods that have been wilfully spread as truth by English writers. Foremost among these is the one which represents that India was given over to anarchy until the British assumed its government. "India would never have existed but for England - If left to herself, India would degenerate into a beargarden" and so on and so forth. Another is that India has been conquered by the sword. These falsehoods have to bo thoroughly exposed by a consideration of the means employed and the policy pursued by the British.
The historian, like the scientist, has not only to classify but to generalise and explain by means of theories and hypotheses. This requires what Tyndall styles "scientific imagination" to discover 'toe missing links. Of course, history should be based on the solid rock of original research among. contemporary records; but for this purpose, Indians cannot get access to many unpublished public-documents, whilst the published ones are not always trustworthy. Mr. James Mill writes of "the skill of. the Court of Directors in suppressing such information as they wished not to appear", while Mr. Cunningham mentions "alterations in State Papers to suit the temporary views of political warfare" and "counterfeit documents which the ministerial stamp forces into currency". We have to be cautious of these "chains of dangerous lies." Some importance has also to be attached to traditions, anecdotes and legends, though their handling requires great moderation. The treaties, apart from their equivocal language, are also of high importance.
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Any attempt on the part of educated Indians to unravel the tangled web of Indian history during British supremacy is construed as creating disaffection to the British Government.
We have also to expose many falsehoods that have been wilfully spread as truth by English writers. Foremost among these is the one which represents that India was given over to anarchy until the British assumed its government. "India would never have existed but for England - If left to herself, India would degenerate into a beargarden" and so on and so forth. Another is that India has been conquered by the sword. These falsehoods have to bo thoroughly exposed by a consideration of the means employed and the policy pursued by the British.
The historian, like the scientist, has not only to classify but to generalise and explain by means of theories and hypotheses. This requires what Tyndall styles "scientific imagination" to discover 'toe missing links. Of course, history should be based on the solid rock of original research among. contemporary records; but for this purpose, Indians cannot get access to many unpublished public-documents, whilst the published ones are not always trustworthy. Mr. James Mill writes of "the skill of. the Court of Directors in suppressing such information as they wished not to appear", while Mr. Cunningham mentions "alterations in State Papers to suit the temporary views of political warfare" and "counterfeit documents which the ministerial stamp forces into currency". We have to be cautious of these "chains of dangerous lies." Some importance has also to be attached to traditions, anecdotes and legends, though their handling requires great moderation. The treaties, apart from their equivocal language, are also of high importance.
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