[25] For an example as to how the British government recognised that the co-option
of the landed class was
indispensable for the smooth administration
of their Empire, see the report on the Imperial Assemblage in Delhi on 1st January, 1877, to mark Queen Victoria's accession to the Imperial Title, «Kaiser - i - Hind,» where the Viceroy, Lord Lytton, told «the native subjects
of the Empress
of India,» that although administrative direction and «supreme supervision» would lie with the English, through whom «the arts, the
sciences and the culture
of the West... may freely flow to the East,» nevertheless there was a need for natives to play a
role in the administration.