Excerpt from Syllabus of Lectures on the History of the British Empire, Vol. 1: Colonial Policy, India and Other Asiatic Dependencies English possessions may be logically divided into dependencies and protectorates. Dependencies are those possessions in which the majority of the inhabitants from climatic reasons must always be of alien races. Protectorates are those countries in which white men can live and work, and, having become a majority of the population, govern them selves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.