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'''James Farish''' was the acting governor of [[Bombay]] during the [[British Raj]] from 11 July 1838 to 31 May 1839. He was a member of the Bombay council, and acted as an interim Governor.<ref>{{cite book|author=George Smith|title=Life of John Wilson, D.D. F.R.S.: For Fifty Years Philanthropist and Scholar in the East|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZYqwdb1ZUEC&pg=PA45|date=7 June 2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-05045-6|page=45}}</ref><br />
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Farish was an [[evangelical]] Christian and friend of [[John Wilson (missionary)|John Wilson]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ian Copland|author2=Ian Mabbett|author3=Asim Roy |author4=Kate Brittlebank |author5=Adam Bowles|title=A History of State and Religion in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uWcZulI5tL0C&pg=PA174|date=2 May 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-45950-4|page=174}}</ref> His time in office was marked by a dispute with the Parsis. He had previously acted as Revenue Secretary, and left India in 1841.<ref>{{cite book|title=Notes on the Affairs of India in Connection with the Charter Act Discussion, 1853|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WOgwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA55|year=1853|publisher=Printed at the "Times' Press" by L.R. Dillon|page=55}}</ref><br />
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In a [[minutes|minute]] issued by the [[Bombay Presidency]] in 1838, Farish wrote that Indian people "must either be kept down by a sense of our power, or they must willingly submit from a conviction that we are more wise, more just, more humane, and more anxious to improve their condition than any other rulers they could possibly have." The literary critic and historian Gauri Viswanathan has described this passage as one that "spell[s] out in the most chilling terms" the nature of the political choices faced by the British administration and the political significance that the British ascribed to [[cultural assimilation]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Viswanathan|first=Gauri|title=Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1989|page=2}}</ref><br />
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