John Morley: “But the difficulties of Indian government are not the result--be sure…”

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But the difficulties of Indian government are not the result--be sure of this--of any single incident or set of incidents.

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John Morley

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Morley asserts that the challenges of governing India stem from complex factors rather than isolated incidents.

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