The future Vice Roy must…not be guided by the snobbish and vulgar, over-bearing and offensive behaviour of our Civil and Political Agents, if we are to go on peaceably and happily in India…not trying to trample on the people and continuously reminding them and making them feel they are a conquered people.

letter to Lord Salisbury, 27 May 1898, in Kenneth Rose Superior Person (1969) ch. 23