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'The British Residents' Assotion which has taken upon itself the eminently worthy task, of establishing a better unison between the British community here and the Mother of Parliaments might do worse than study the recent history of a Kindred association in India.
The European Association which to-day embraces within its fold all non-official Europeans in the. whole of India, the wives of, Government servants being cluded in that category. Tt also is able to extend its membership, on a non-political basis, to Europen officials. In the old days, before Mr. Montagu started to, disturb the placid contentment' of the Indian masses—a process which, by the way, was in train long before he annexed the copyright—the European Asso ciation struggled along in Cal-gutta, neglected by Europeans outside. that City and regarded by most people as. a. coterie. of die-hards whose views counted
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