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John Morley: “To hesitate to make a beginning with our own policy of improving the administrative machinery of the Indian Government…”

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To hesitate to make a beginning with our own policy of improving the administrative machinery of the Indian Government, would have been taken as a sign of nervousness, trepidation, and fear; and fear, that is always unworthy in any Government, is in the Indian Government, not only unworthy, but extremely dangerous.
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John Morley

Editor's note · Context

Morley warns that hesitation in reforming the Indian Government could be perceived as cowardice, which is particularly dangerous in that context.

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