Walter Bagehot: “A perfectly inexperienced man, so far as Indian affairs go, rules all…”

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A perfectly inexperienced man, so far as Indian affairs go, rules all our Indian Empire.

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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot criticizes the appointment of an inexperienced individual to govern the Indian Empire.

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Walter Bagehot: “A perfectly inexperienced man, so far as Indian affairs go, rules all our Indian Empire.”