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John Morley: Yet all evidence tends to show we are rather making administration less personal, though evidence also tends to show…

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Yet all evidence tends to show we are rather making administration less personal, though evidence also tends to show that the Indian people are peculiarly responsive to sympathy and personal influence.
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John Morley

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Morley reflects on the nature of administration in India and the Indian people's response to personal influence.

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