John malcolm fraser biography of mahatma
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PE 14 FEB 1979
PRIME MINISTER
ADDRESSTOINDIANPARL I AMENT
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MALCOLM FRASER, M. P.
PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA.
27 JANUARY 1979.
27 JANUARY 1979
STATEMENT ! f~ O INDIAN PARLIAMENT
As the leader of a parliamentary democracy, and as someone with
23 years personal experience as a parliamentarian I am delighted
to have this opportunity to address you, the representatives
of the largest democracy in the-world.
No invitation has been more welcome to me and I would like to
express at the outset, and in the clearest terms my admiration
for India's commitment to the democratic principle.
It has been sustained in circumstances which have never been easy
and have sometimes been dauntingly difficult.
Future historians will surely record as one of the most remarkable
facts of the second half of the twentieth century that as democracy
faltered and failed in dozens of countries, countri
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Malcolm – Soldier, Diplomat, Ideologue of British India: The Life of Sir John Malcolm (1769 - 1833)
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Highly regarded in India and Persia to this day, Sir John Malcolm is remarkably little known in his native Scotland. This book describes his extraordinary journey from modest origins to become a leading player in the transformation of the East India Company from a largely commercial enterprise into an agent of imperial government, during a crucial period of British and Indian political history. Born in 1769, Malcolm was one of seventeen children of a tenant farmer in the Scottish Borders. Leaving school, family and country at thirteen, he achieved distinction in India over the next half-century. A quintessential all-rounder, he excelled in many fields: as a professional sol
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
Viceroy of India and British Foreign sekreterare (1859–1925)
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as Lord Curzon, was a British statesman, Conservative politician, explorer and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and utländsk Secretary from 1919 to 1924.
Curzon was born in Derbyshire into an aristocratic family and educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, before entering Parliament in 1886. In the following years, he travelled extensively in Russia, huvud Asia and the Far East, and published several books on the distrikt in which he detailed his geopolitical outlook and underlined the perceived Russian threat to British control of India. In 1891, Curzon was named Under-Secretary of State for India, and in 1899 he was appointed Viceroy of India. During his tenure, he pursued a number of reforms of the British ledning, attempted t