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D of the War will be in sight. For the War cannot end till the death-knell of autocracy is sounded. Causes, with which I will deal presently and for which India was not responsible,
have somewhat obscured the first eager expressions of India's sympathy, and have forced her thoughts largely towards her
own position in the Empire.
But that does not detract from the immense aid she has given,
and is still giving. It must not be
forgotten that long before the present War she had submitted--at first, while she had no power of remonstrance, and later, after 1885, despite

the constant protests of Congress--to an ever-rising military expenditure, due partly to the amalgamation scheme of 1859, and partly to
the cost of various wars beyond her frontiers, and to continual recurring frontier and trans-frontier expeditions, in which she had no real interest. They were sent out for supposed Imperial advantages,
not for her own. Between 1859 and 1904--45 years--Indian
troops were engaged in thirty-seven wars and expeditions. There
were ten wars: the two Chinese Wars of 1860 and 1900, the Bhutan War of 1864-65, the Abyssinian War of 1868, the Afghan War of 1878-79,
and, after the massacre of the Kabul Mission, the second War of 1879-80, ending in an advance of the frontier, in the search for an ever receding "scientific frontier"; on this occasion
the frontier was shifted, says Keene, "from the line of the Indus to
the western slope of the Suleiman range and from Peshawar
to Quetta"; the Egyptian War of 1882, in which the Indian troops
markedly distinguished themselves;
the third Burmese War of 1885 ending in the annexation of Upper Burma in 1886; the invasions of Tibet

in 1890 and 1904. Of Expeditio
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