decision, saying that "'if the Government had to submit, its submission was, with due respect to His Majesty's Government, under protest.'' This declaration was warmly hailed by the Indian members of the Assembly as identifying the Viceroy and his Government with the views of the Indian people. ''In other words," says the ''Nineteenth Century's'' contributor, "the Viceroy has given a lead to the renewal of the fanatical Swaraj (Home Rule) campaign, which, under Gandhi's leadership, produced such disastrous results and fomented: race hatred to an extent never known before in There is one aspect of the whole controversy which must not be overlooked. Even those without any personal knowledge of India axe aware of the iron divisions which caste imposes on its peoples. Mr. Ramaswami, an Indian well known at Cambridge, has stated frankly in a letter to the ''Times'' that ''in parts of South India millions of Indians are regarded as untouchable and unapproachable. They are not allowed to enter the village temples or use the village wells. Similar conditions embracing a population of nearly 50,000,000 Hindus exist all over India." In Kenya, the great majority of the Indians are drawn from the low and despised caste of Sudras, artisans and field labourers, or from people regarded as so mean that they have no caste at all. It is these people who in India would not be considered as having any rights at all, and who could never by any possibility attain thereto, whom the intellectuals of India would place on terms of equality with white men in Kenya. The writer in the "Nineteenth Century'' says The real object at the back of this agitation is not the betterment of the Kenya Indians; it is to make Kenya the test case by which the position of Indians in relation to white men shall be regulated throughout the British Empire: the watchword is "Equality or separation?' but no equality for Indians among themselves in India. 2 And in those last words is indicated the essential futility of attempting to graft democratic institutions on to India. One reads with some relief that at the Imperial Conference, the Duke of Devonshire, Colonial Secretary, ''emphasized that the Government would not ¢on—sent to reconsider the "Kenya
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