Letters On The Indian System

Author : William Sproston Caine
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780366701476
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Young India written by William Sproston Caine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Young India: A Series of Letters Written for the Fall Mall Gazette During a Political Tour in India in the Winter of 1890-91 U have been kind enough to ask me to contribute to your columns a few letters on Indian subjects, as the result of my observations during my third visit to our vast Indian Empire, and also to arrange that my travelling companion, Mr. Robt. W. Allan, should add a few illustrations. As a friend of India, and a warm sympathiser with the aspirations of her cultured people, I look upon the request from so influential a journal as very gratifying evidence of the increasing interest which is being aroused at home in all Indian subjects, and I gladly avail myself of such space as you place at my disposal. My own object in these repeated visits to India is distinctly political. I am tryingwto know something of the many social and political problems pressing for solution, and which, in the absence of all representative legislation and administration, can only find expression in the native press, and in the discussions of that remarkable assembly of educated Indians, the Indian National Congress, which meets annually - this year at Calcutta, where I shall be present as a delegate from Sholapur, a populous city in the Deccan. While I hope to amuse your readers with descriptions of many of the incidents of Indian travel, my main object will be to bring home to their minds the fact that, in spite of the horrid memories of the Mutiny, Indian loyalty to Britain and to British over-rule is now beyond all question that the two countries are now so bound together by ties of self-interest that severance has become impossible, and is nowhere desired that the right of free speech and a free press, long since conceded, the wide extension of local self-government during recent years, the proved capacity of Indians to occupy the highest administrative and judicial posts, and, above all, the development of higher education, is rapidly fitting large numbers of the Indian people for the enjoyment of a carefully-guarded representative Government, both provincial and imperial. I will also try to show how much, or rather how little, of Western methods of government need be grafted on existing institutions to give India a representative system in accordance with the modest demands of Congress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.