To John Kenneth Galbraith, who had been appointed American ambassador to India, 'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador's Journal, 36)

Of Etienne Dupach, the editor of the Nassau Daily Tribune: 'It must remembered that Dupach is more than half Negro, and due to the peculiar mentality of this R…

To Gore Vidal (who described the Duke as having 'always had something of...riveting stupidity to say on any subject'), 'British Empire. First trip to India. Gl…

On seeing the great archaeological finds at Taxila, in Punjab, 'This place ought never to have been dug up.' (Ziegler, King Edward VIII, 140)

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us …

'The British had the gall to call Robert Clive 'Clive of India' as if he belonged to the country, when all he really did was to ensure that much of the country…