India: Past, Present, and Future by Charles Crosthwaite

What is India? I make no apology for answering the question in the words used by Lord Dufferin at the St. Andrew’s dinner, Calcutta, on November 80, 1888, for they give the most vivid picture of what we mean by India that has been drawn in a few lines. ‘It is an Empire,’ he said, ‘equal in size, if Russia be excluded, to the entire Continent of Europe, with a population of 250,000,000 souls.