Rom "THe Tiwzs" from India of riots tied and disturbed the whole of England, and has raised auch gloomy recollections of the terrible days of the Mutiny fifty yeara ago that itis desirable to consider dispassionately the cause of the present unrest and to trace it back to its origin. I shall speak only of the Punjab, the country in which T have lived for many years, With one of the districts from which disturbances are reported I can fairly claim to have most intimate acquaintance, an no-quaintance which extends to every village and hamlet, to every dialect and auh-dialect, to every local headman and and to many thousands of the cultivators who There are many Englishmen who sympathized and who now sympathise with the sspirations of the educated Indians for [groater share in the administration, for more consideration and for more assist. ance in striving upwards. For such men it is painful to soe that the most hopeful movamont of recent yours has now made racial strife its object and end. Englishmen, with their confident manner and overdo popular in any country, popaler in India, Ase class they are contemptuous of moat Indians, but they shook to find that, agitators has found it 0 easy to stir mp and expos among educated Indians " hatred of the Eoglish which knows no distinction of persons, and which differs only dogeoo, and not in kind, from the old blood thirst of Mutiny days of which our fathore have told us, It is painful fact that those Indians who s00 most of the English, and do not actually servo them, hate them most, This fooling is often personal, Educated Indians, by reasons of their education and occupation, generally live, Jeontact with Cog! hopes and fears, and, trying to und stand them and tobe understood by them, have learnt to love them. I know best the humble passant farmer, the man behind the plough with sturdy, soldierly sons, but I have moved in every plane of society, with the educated and with the uneducated, with the soldier, the trader and the professional map, and all speak to mo freely, for I know them all. Tt may then be of interest to others to set down what I belive to be the more immediate causes of the present troubles, and perhaps alzoto anticipate something of the future movement of eventa. Space will not admit of dealing with remote and primary causes; that would be to write history of Indian thought and of British Todian administration, possible only to trace lightly the cause of the alteration in the feelings of people within the Inst few years, an alteration which will admit and_ which meny English and not a few Indians deplore.
The Russo-Japanove war has quickened the whole East to now life and now hopes. For the first time the Est ha met and detented the West with its weapons, end th now hope has arisen that what one nation has done another that the East may one or petty subordinate, business man or loafer. The English private soldier has about as bad a reputation as he could have, and s reputation very much worse than he deserves, Ho can hardly speak to any man oF go anywhere without his motives and his manners being suspected and resented. In short, for the educated Indian and for who lives near cantonments ions, the dominance of the in evidence, and the East and the West is tory, yot the depth of that antagoni"m has not been suspected by most Englishmen or by many Indians, and it ly. within the Inst few mont! that it has be ical doctrine and put form one common link between Indian religions and nationalities. What is now know as New India, the progressive party in the Todian Congress, frankly anti-Englich Their leaders their newspapers attack not only ug is, for English officials often deserve to be attacked, but than nttack the whole English race, without d [tinction of right of wrong, of occupation lor behaviour. To take ® concrete case,
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