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Rh Such extracts might be supplemented by a hundred others, recorded by British officers, whose task it has been, through the forty-two years since annexation, to efface the scars of the old wounds of the Punjab, and to bring back to the long-devastated province happiness, prosperity, and peace. But these will suffice to point the moral to those in India and in England who try to persuade the world that the British rule is harsh and oppressive, and who would make the greatest glory of our race, in the enlightened government of Hindustán, a matter for reproach and shame. Those who run may read, and the letters of light in which our Indian work is written can be seen by all eyes save of those who will not see. Anarchy, famine, and rapine have been replaced by orderly and just administration, under which every man enjoys his own in peace, none making him afraid. Where, out of twelve shillings' worth of produce, the Sikh Government took six from the peasant as rent, the British Government takes only two or one. The