Legal system Quote by Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

“From the legal point of view it was early established that the Indians were the proprietors of all lands which they possessed and cultivated…

— J.H. Elliott

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there.…

— Wooden Leg

“If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in…

— Thomas Munro

“History of India From Ancient Times to the 20th Century   by William W. Hunter”

— Anonymous

“For years, since the eighteenth century, and in each century since, we have said at home, in England, in Whitehall, that the day would…

— Paul Scott

“The Hindu caste system and its attendant laws of purity became deeply embedded in Indian culture. Long after the Indo-Aryan invasion was forgotten, Indians…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow…

— Edward Jenks

I am the last Englishman to rule in India.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Divorce of the intellect from body-labour has made of us the shortest-lived, most resourceless and most exploited nation on earth.(This is about Indians -…

— Naipaul Shiva

If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“How many Indians today would want to call a vote to divest themselves of democracy, English, the railway network, the legal system, cricket and…

— Yuval Noah Harari