Tory : Tory & Whig were names used to denote two opposing political parties in England in 18th century. They were introduced as terms of abuse in 1679 during the heated controversy over the bill to exclude James, Duke of York (afterwards James II), from the succession. The Tories supported James’ hereditary right despite his Roman Catholic faith; the Whigs (‘Whig’ connoted nonconformity & rebellion) claimed the power of excluding the heir from the throne. After the Revolution of 1688 Toryism became identified with Anglicanism & Squirearchy & Whiggism with the financial interests of aristocratic & wealthy middle classes & later of the proletariate. Their connotations changed continually as they were applied to individuals or parties by sentiment & tradition. But Tory continues to designate the Conservative Party.
... shooting will begin; it invites the attention of the Indian reactionaries—whoever they may be—to this bloodcurdling Howard Vincent war-whoop and warns them that this is the prospect before them if a Tory Government comes into power while the present unrest continues. By its Indian reactionaries the Friend probably means not Nawab Salimullah and the Mihir Sudhakar , but the Democratic Nationalist party ...
... complex interweaving of two narratives, that of the Orientalists and of the Liberal administrators. The latter, incidentally, were Liberals only because their politics back home in Britain was Whig, not Tory; they were proponents of the free market, of new ideas such as utilitarianism and positivism. But as far as India was concerned, they were rather intolerant and dismissive. James Mill's History of ...
... truths about England's dominion in Hindustan. He meets with the same callous disapprobation from all Englishmen alike, from the Liberal whose motto is "Government with consent" just as much as from the Tory whose principle avowedly is "let things be." On the Indian question the Englishman will tell you his position is that of a "patriot", not of a "partisan". Imperialism is far above party; every Englishman ...
... of all English parties, not excluding the Labourites. The interest of the monied classes is bound up with the continuance of arbitrary British domination, and for that domination Liberal as well as Tory will fight tooth and nail. As for the Labour party, it will support that domination if they think it is to the interest of the working classes; otherwise they will oppose it. We have met and talked ...
... confused and ever fiercer struggle out of which a free and regenerated India is to arise, each one had its own acute fears and fervent hopes for the results of this year's Congress. Anglo-India and Tory England feared that the Extremists might capture the assembly; they hoped that a split would be created, and, as a result, the Congress either come to an end and land itself in the limbo of forgotten ...
... sins. Mr. John Morley, the principal spurrer-on of Gladstone when Egypt was enslaved, the Chief Secretary whom the Irish feared and distrusted, the Secretary of State who has begun in India what no Tory statesman could have lightly undertaken, the attempt to stifle Indian aspirations by sheer force and put back the clock of progress from the nineteenth century into the Middle Ages, could not find a ...
... chance to a man like Napoleon to get the whole country into his grip and to menace the independence of neighbouring nations in Europe and even the security of insular England. Wordsworth became a stern Tory and a supporter of Puritan institutions: he even went to the extent of devoting several dull sonnets to the theme of Capital Punishment! His change of mind is a little complicated. We can, of course ...
... s Life of Alexander the Great, translated by Aubrey de Selincourt (The Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 1958), p. 187. 2. The Classical Accounts..., p. 341. Page 163 tory sentences about the Ganges and reach the end of the preceding paragraph, we alight upon the words: 1 "The tribes called the Calingae are nearest the sea, and higher up are the Mandei, and the Malli ...
... moment of the Here and Now sweeps away all the melancholy reflections of all things passing away, the vanity of earthly existence when Tagore was considering the 'poet of Mohenjodaro' and the transi-toriness of all earthly things. It is the task of the poet to reveal such things, the daily miracle and mystery. As Blake did when he was able To sec a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in ...
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