To understand the full significance of the change which has come over the country one has to contrast what he sees at present, unsatisfactory as it may appear from some points of view, with the state of things described above....

Remembering that methods of progress calculated to evoke national feeling and religious enthusiasm are unavailable under the conditions of the case, the progress that has been made ...

is little short of marvellous.
It was from Madras that the British power set forth on its unpremeditated course of conquest which was destined ultimately to reach from Tuticorin to the Himalayas.

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century the Madras Presidency has been in the fortunate position of having no history.

Its northern rivals call it despitefully the "benighted" Presidency.