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1899–1977 England
Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe GBE PC FBA (30 March, 1899 – 1 April, 1977), was a British lawyer and Law Lord best known for his role in the Partition of India. He served as the first chancellor of the University of Warwick from its 1965 foundation until 1977.
Also known as: Cyril Radcliffe, Lord Radcliffe
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Culture is a word that makes some people in this country reach for their guns—like Marshal Göring; but I do not see how a country that is worth living in can get on without a reverence for it.
The I.C.S. was a service designed to secure certain things that were of undebatable value to India: order, first and always, and then the hard structural foundation upon which others might build, railways, roads, irrigation, land survey, town planning, control of famine and disease. Within this range its alien recruitment and its philosophy of detachment were themselves a strength.
The British have formed the habit of praising their institutions, which are sometimes inept, and of ignoring the character of their race, which is often superb. In the end they will be in danger of losing their character and being left with their institutions: a result disastrous indeed.