> For, if a fair number of men and women be found in India who would be prepared without any ill will against the spoliators to lay down their lives rather than bend the knee to them, they would have shown the way to freedom from the tyranny of violence.
I find this statement quite unsettling and devalues the lives of a 'a fair number of men and women be found in India'. It is practically a green signal to mow down the population without any aversive consequences for violent acts and dubiously hoping to evoke some humanity and kindness out of the British Military and State machinery.