If India is to be really capable of holding its own in future without direct British control from outside I am not sure that it will not need an increasing infusion of stronger Nordic blood, whether by settlement or intermarriage or otherwise. Possibly it has been a real mistake of ours in the past not to encourage Indian princes to marry English wives ... and so breed a more virile type of native ruler.
This was written by Leo Amery, the Secretary of State of India during WW2, to Lord Linlithgow, the Viceroy of India (1936–'43).
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