CHARLES HARDINGE

(1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst)


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Charles Hardinge

The sympathy of India, deep and burning, for those passive resisters who were being dealt with by measures which could not for a moment be tolerated in any country that claims to be civilized.
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Some Indians were engaged in a massive program of non-violent passive resistance, but were brutally beaten. Even the Viceroy was outraged. The quotation illustrates the limited power that even the Viceroy of India had as there was a bureaucratic, decentralized government in each state of India which reported to its own administrators and legislatures.

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Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, KG, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, ISO, PC[1] (20 June 1858 – 2 August 1944) was a British diplomat and statesman who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India from 1910 to 1916.