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taingrs from Aash meat. The tale cause of the presence of forsigners in India as conquerors at various periods of its history is that the Hindus have been for centuries fighting and quarrelling among themselves, and that go. sense of a common nationality was ever developed in them. Secondly, under those circumstances the conception of a modern Western State never entered into theft mind.' Hence, they respected the authority and laws of the sovereing ruling for the time being. For centuries they have been used to passive submission. The late Sir J. R. Seeley, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, says in his “Expansion of England": "I showed you that of the army which won our victories [in India), four-fifths consisted of native troops. That we were able to hire these native troops for service in India was due to the fact that the feeling of nationality had no existence there. Now, if the feeling of a common nationality began to exist there only feebly if, without inspiring any active desire to drive out the foreigner, it only created a notion that it was shameful to assists him in maintaining his dominion, from that day almost our Empire would cease to exist, for of the army by which it is garrisoned, two-thirds consist of native soldiers." The Hon. Mr. Rees wanted to know whether Jainism was a living religion, so as to differentiate its professors from the Hindus around them. The idea of the sanctity of life which permeates the Jains and which they forced on the minds of the Hindus,
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