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This little book is one of the series on current topics now being issued under the heading "To-day and To-morrow." It cannot really be called much more than an expanded pamphlet, and the information in it could be compressed withthe limits of a single lecture or the "Nineteenth Century.' publisher's note describes it as "one of the frankest and most courageous books ever written on India, sparing neither white ruler nor black ruled, but mercilessly ox-posing the shortcomings, criminal ind humbug! which are responsible for the present plight of India." Well, the author certainly trounces everybody he can think of to say any thi about. The native Indian, for his istence upon infant marriages {which are undoubtedly unsound), ancestral bugrer-mugger, and o¥ indulgence in the natural appetites ian, for! snobbery and ta so much!
nancy paid by India, and spending elsewhere (as regards the latter, while, of course, a certain amount of Indian money goes in pensions, n England, pay, nevertheless the total of thix must amount to but a small fraction of what the Anglo. Indian resident expends in living expense in Thdia during: the 20 years or x0 of his working life).
'The author ix particularly: agai the Government of India' for Proclamation of 1858, pressly affirms that the!
twill not interfere with religious liberties of its subjects, sand contrasts this with the vigour with which the practices Sattee (the turning of widows) and] Thusgrism (religious highway extinct will banily" tolerate} [revere pet! lexialati Upon the se hole. is written in am active conversa ional. style, may very well serv reader. who those who the lave, anier, and tea Taices. which] the feck, however, reseret that the cut cism is nearly all destructive, and the far more difficult task of sug-ho oon after finment "House "to pass trme'of a lady love who wan thera they pa her hire Sat wi bard iy\impress the China Hand.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.