Every work published on India is full of the benefits alleged to have accrued to country and to people by the consolidation, under such wise and kindly conquerors as the British, of all races from Persia to China, from the borders of Kashgar to Komorin. The India Office itself annually trumpets forth paeans of praise of the work of its own hands, of the achievements of its own servants. Few of the trumpeters, however, recognise that whatever may have been done has been paid for by the Indian people (Digby 4).
Digby, William. “Proem.” ‘Prosperous’ British India, T. Fisher Unwin, 1901, pp. 3-22.