If the undone people of India see their old oppressors in confirmed power, even by the reformation, they will expect nothing but what they will certainly feel,--continuance, or rather an aggravation, of all their former sufferings.
Burke warns that if the people of India see their oppressors still in power, they will only expect continued suffering.
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