Original sentence: “Every application of knowledge and especially such as is obtained in social communication with people, over whom we exercise dominion, founded on the right of conquest, is useful to the state … It attracts and conciliates distant affections, it lessens the weight of the chain by which the natives are held in subjection and it imprints on the hearts of our countrymen the sense of obligation and  benevolence… Every instance  which brings their real character will impress us with more generous sense of  feeling for their natural rights, and teach us to estimate them  by the measure of  our own… But such instances can only be gained in their writings; and these will survive when British domination in India shall have long ceased to exist, and when the sources  which once yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrance” (Bernar Cohn Colonialism and its forms of Knowledge"  Oxford University Press 1997
Edited sentence: that of the Indians) will impress us with more generous sense of  feeling for their natural rights, and teach us to estimate them  by the measure of  our own (would that more Englishman had heeded these words to a greater extent than we the indics had experienced)… But such instances can only be gained in their writings; and these will survive when British domination in India shall have long ceased to exist, and when the sources  which once yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrance” (Bernar Cohn Colonialism and its forms of Knowledge"  Oxford University Press 1997.“Every application of knowledge and especially such as is obtained in social communication with people, over whom we exercise dominion, founded on the right of conquest, is usefiul to the state … It attracts and conciliates distant affections, it lessens the weight of the chain by which the natives are held in subjection (notice there is no talk of removal of the chain, no pretence that they will deal with the natives with dignity and respect) and it imprints on the hearts of our countrymen the sense of obligation and  benevolence … (now we know where the expression ‘the white mans burden originated) …Every instance  which brings their real character (i