Lectures on the Tinnevelly Missions

The smallness of the number of the English in India is very extraordinary and is a fact which is full of significance. The whole of the inhabitants of India are either directly under British rule or they are inhabitants of nation protected states in which all proceeding of importance are controlled by a British Resident; yet the English in India to whom the government of 180 millions of Hindus has been committed do not number 60000 souls! The proportion subsisting between the English and the native population in some of the older provinces of British India is especially extraordinary.