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3 Sources About British India
3 Sources About British India
Source 2
From: a letter to a Kesari newspaper in 1900 quoted in
S.R. Mehrotra, Towards India’s Freedom, published in 1978.
We do not believe our condition will be any better by the
exchange of the British rule for that of any other nation. Since we
are not in a position to gain our independence by fighting with
the English, it is desirable that we should advance step by step
behaving in a conciliatory manner with the British.
Source 3
A photograph of part of the great procession of the Indian
princes at the Delhi Durbar in 1903. This occasion was organised
by the viceroy, Lord Curzon, for the princes to acknowledge the
Coronation of Edward VII.