ABSTRACT
In this instance, the Viscount is almost modern in his sensibility about race as he explicitly blames England for letting so many Indians die due to racist views. With the Orissa Famine in mind, he asks, was it at all possible for the British government to learn the art of governing. He reserves particular contumely for Beadon’s actions, in which he preferred to come out on the side of the economy rather than human life. Cranborne seems, avant la lettre, to be describing false consciousness.221
