In'this country Hindus who a biter permanently or, temporary books Several indus have or-here are up in arms against,
ganized a lecture platform in many arts of the country, talks being Aelivered before clubs, universitic colleges. and men's luncheon oxganizations. Thefy aim is to show that "Miss Mayo's. book is a mere Big guilt the fast aspirations cof lies, that she was extremely
ping India -at the time 'WHO it, that shovhas "deliber ototred her mat extent that pictures of Indian conditions to-day ate wilfully distorted and that "Mother India" is a @angerous publication. The consequence is that India is now near on the American horizon. People who previously possessed the merest rudiments of knowledge of the indian Empire have suddenly come aware that the problems of India "from many angles form nothing short of a world menace. They have come to learn through the author's fair comment on the Government that "sedition". in India thas been consistently exaggerated, and that the British Government's service to the peoples of India can never be too liberally computed.
As a Briton, T think any right minded ce-national will thank Miss Mayo for having produced a book jon "India, which (while giving extreme dissatisfaction and a certain Bhamo to Indians of all castes) paints as truthfully as any non~ British writer could paint the Picture as it exists.
1 Wherever Miss Mayo offered comment on Indian topics or opinion fon any of the thousand and one of India's modern problems, she was invariably eulogistic of Britich rule. In a very real sense, however, she went to India more in the capacity of a reporter than as an author. average American aukty La her. opening chapter. "That actually' now. about india? she
ach he has, also tigers Absorbed. from professional Pronseandiatn on: of one camp, on From ales and travels and yerees, having] India as thole scene."
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