3-077-808 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Rajah of Bhinga, Oude, 1890. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. G. W. Laurie and Co. 'The Rajah was...specially deputed to entertain Prince Albert Victor...at the Kaiser Bagh, Lucknow. [He] is one of the few orthodox Hindus who maintain the real need for...the social improvement of the people...He has no sympathy with the obtrusive agitators, with their thin veneer of English education, their loose principles, and want of reverence for the past; and he fully recognises the important fact that India is not a nation, but a collection of peoples of different races, creeds, and interests, who live together in peace and tolerance mainly because peace and tolerance are...enforced by the strong hand of the [British] law. His own political views have been largely set forth in the Calcutta Review, in "Indian Radicalism and its Danger," and in a masterly political pamphlet, "Democracy not suited to India," certainly one of the best contributions to the discussion of the Congress question. The Rajah is a scion of the ancient house of the Biswen Rajputs...he is the Talookdar of one of the largest and richest estates in Oude, in the management of which he has shown unusual capacity...he is a benevolent donor both to private and public objects'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.