Munro : William (1818-80): entered the 39th Regiment 1834: spent many years in India: fought at Maharajpur, Dec.1843, severely wounded: fought in the Crimean war, in Canada, Bermuda: made General in 1878: a learned botanist, he was an authority of grasses: wrote papers in Journals of learned Societies, timber of Bengal, grasses, etc. [Buckland; was this Munro the Bengal Presidency Commissioner when Bankim Chandra was a deputy magistrate in 1860s?]
... sent back in a hurry to Magistrate's work, this time at Alipur. But his ill-luck followed him. He was shipwrecked again in a collision with Anglo-Indianism. Walking in Eden Garden he chanced across Munro, the Presidency Commissioner, a farouche bureaucrat with the manners of an Englishman and the temper of a badly-educated hyena. Bankim examined the queer curiosity, as one might any queer curiosity... Government has found out a new way to pay its old debts? Resolve me, for I am in doubt." The gibe told. He had hardly set foot in Orissa, when he was gazetted back to Hugly. After a lapse of time,—Munro, I believe, had in the mean time been struck by his own astonishing likeness to the founder of Christianity and was away to spread the light of the Gospel among the heathen—after a lapse of time ...
... their main demand for responsible Government and pressed for it whenever an opportunity presented itself. Even in their farewell address presented in 1859 to Trevelyan, the most popular Governor since Munro, they reiterated their demand for responsible Government. In reply, the Governor exhorted them to qualify themselves for representative institutions by cultivating the 'literature of England which is ...
... to the nations of Europe; and if civilisation is to become an article of trade between the two countries, I am convinced that this country [England] will gain by the import cargo." This was Thomas Munro. But here was a 'trade' Britain was hardly interested in. Sir John Malcolm put it in a less commercial language: "The Hindoo inhabitants are a race of men, generally speaking, not 1. In ...
... p. 225 . Page 388 for perpetuity." (Dr. Gregory, Medical Prospectus) "The human body as a machine is perfect...it is apparently intended to go on forever." (Dr. Munro) As a matter of fact, in contradistinction to all man-made machines, a multicellular body functions as a highly efficient machine which has somehow learnt the art of self-repair. And if this ...
... rather uncertain course. He brought to life, particularly for American readers, a whole city, Toronto. To him the brilliant post-Callaghan group of Canadians—Robertson Davies, Moradecai Richler, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood—owe much. "A Cap for Steve " is a simple story about simple people. It deals, however, with large themes: boyhood, paternity, trust, loyality, and the traps in which ordinary lives ...
... The educational system in India was "the most ingeniously complete machine for murder that human stupidity ever invented, and murder not only of a man's body but of a man's soul". Of a certain Mr. Munro (alas, oblivion has all but swallowed him up, but in his day he seems to have done some injury to Bankim Chandra), all that is said is that he "had the temper of a badly educated hyena!" As for Bankim ...
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