"Our endeavor should be to uphold in full force the (fortunate for us) separation which exists between the different religions and races, and not to endeavor to amalgamate them. Divide et impera should be the principle of Indian government."
— Divide and rule

January 1, 1970

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Brigadier John Coke, in: Society, N. S. S. &., Winter. (1951). Quoted in Divide and Rule: British Policy in Indian History. 15(1). s.l.:s.n., quoted in Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee - The Development of Aryan Invasion Theory in India, A Critique of Nineteenth-Century Social Constructionism-Springer (2020)