Dufferin : Lord Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquis of Dufferin & Ava (1826-1902), replaced Ripon as Viceroy-cum-Gov.-Gen. (1884-88) to protect the interests of the white settlers who had merged their private associations into an awesome agitation & choked off both Viceroy Ripon & his Ilbert Bill. What had alarmed London was the reaction of the native politicians to the success of the white settlers’ agitations. Some of them had set aside their distinct regional aspirations & demands, & try to build an alliance on common national issues which naturally would have a stronger impact on the rulers. Informed of this developing situation, Dufferin commissioned recently retired Hume to find out what national issues drew these politicians together & how resolute they could be. Already apprised by Indian & British CID of the rumbling volcano of increasing outbreaks of sporadic violent crimes in many parts of rural India involving the illiterate starving masses & the down-but-not-out native fighting classes, & fishing in those waters were Afghan & Russian imperialists with whom British imperialism had created an unceasing tussle for the Indian empire when Lytton had invaded Afghanistan. Then in 1884, Russia captured Merv, a town about 150 miles north-west of British India’s border along Afghanistan, rousing Britain’s fears of a Russian invasion of Afghanistan & thence into north-west India, even though the Afghan Emir managed to dissolve such a possibility. Dufferin, naturally, did not want the newly politically conscious Indian leaders to play into the hands of these dangerous elements – what with Ripon creating district boards & giving them charge of public education, etc., bound to awaken the proletariate to national political issues. Satisfied with Hume’s report on their loyalty & submissiveness, Dufferin asked him to provide them an anodyne platform (like done for soap-box orators in London’s Hyde Park) to vent their woes & demands, & problems & solutions, but make sure they have no connection with the suffering proletariat.
... being temporarily transferred elsewhere. The new building is a fine red brick building just outside the city, graceful in architecture and sufficient in accommodation. It is now called the Countess of Dufferin Hospital as a compliment to a lady whose name will always be remembered in India in association with high benevolence, active sympathy with suffering and an earnest desire to ameliorate the condition... Jumnabai is confined to out cases; it was originally a dispensary afterwards turned into a Hospital, by attaching a girls' school building in the vicinity as a ward. For in-cases the accommodation in the Dufferin Hospital is sufficient and the site healthier, accordingly since 1899 the admission of inpatients into the Jumnabai Hospital has been discontinued. The Sayajirao Military Hospital was, as its name... appointed by the State to treat cases at the Hospitals in which patients might express a greater confidence in the Mahomedan system of treatment and the State Balvaid was attached to the Countess of Dufferin Hospital in 1899-1900 for the benefit of those who preferred the Ayurvedic treatment. The city of Baroda has therefore been amply supplied with medical facilities; nor have the districts been neglected ...
... Their so-called independence is nothing more than a mere name. Though Lord Curzon called them his "colleagues and partners in the task of Indian administration" the truth was better expressed by Lord Dufferin who characterised the independence enjoyed by them as a "regulated independence", regulated by whom and to what extent it is superfluous to say. The incubus of the British Resident is always there ...
... right of shedding her blood for the safety of the land? What room for the gifts of large initiative, comprehensive foresight, wise aspiration which make the statesman, when a Bentinck or a Mayo, a Dufferin or a Curzon were ready & eager to take & keep the heavy burdens of Government out of the hands of the children of the soil? The princely spirit, the eagle's vision, the lion's heart, these were things ...
... paternalising vice-regal policies but also arose in defiant protest against reactionary repression. It was in Madras that the idea of setting up a national political body originated. Viceroy Dufferin had desired that Indians must have a national forum where political issues could be debated and public opinion crystallised. This idea was seriously pursued by veterans like Anandacharlu, G. Subrahmania ...
... session of the Indian National Congress, held at Bombay in 1885. Many questions have been raised about the motives for starting the Congress. The most widely accepted view is that Hume, under Lord Dufferin, organised the Congress with two main purposes: to provide a 'safety-valve' to the anticipated or actual discontentment of the Indian intelligentsia and to form a quasi-constitutional party similar ...
... of force the enemies of the country." 101 In 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded by A.C. Hume, a retired civilian, at the secret suggestion and under the veiled auspices of Lord Dufferin, the then Governor-General of India. It was Lord Dufferin's intention to use the Congress as a "safety-valve" for the seething discontent in the land. Thus inaugurated, the Indian National ...
... His scheme was "to save the Indian youths from the influence of Spiritual teachers" who had been secretly working for India's freedom. The sannyasins of Bankim's Anandamath were no fiction. Lord Dufferin, who was then the Viceroy (1884-88), lent his support to the nascent organization deeming it would serve the interests of the British Empire and save it from danger. The Congress held its first session ...
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