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Excerpt from Cases Illustrative of Oriental Life, and the Application of English Law to India, Decided in H. M. Supreme Court at Bombay During the last few months of holding office in India I employed some leisure hours in collecting and revising a few cases of general interest that had come before me in the Supreme Court of Bombay, and I now venture to lay them before the public. The insight into human life afforded by transactions in a Court of Justice had always appeared to me to give peculiar opportunities to an observer for studying national character; but it is especially to a class like the English in India that such opportunities are most valuable. For the chief administrators in our vast Indian empire are so completely severed from the bulk of the population by colour, race, language, religion, and material interests, that they are often, if not habitually, in complete ignorance of the most patent facts occurring around them (a). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.