The Indian Horizon

" The mentality of the coverage Indian can never be the mentality of the average Englishman." I have stressed the word average because in the sentence quoted it is the vital word and the one that is too often left out of the picture when the Englishman or the American is making a mental coparison between the peoples of India and the peoples of the West. [...] The internal peace and prosperity of British India since the assumption of control by the Crown made it possible for the British Parliament of the day to consider the introduction of the Council form of Government and to delegate polwer4 of legislation. [...] In view of subsequent developments I shall quote at length the section (84A) of the Government of India Act 1919 regarding the appointment of a Statutory Comission :— At the expiration of ten years after the passing of the Government of India Act 1919 the Secretary of State with the concurrence of both Houses of Parliament shall submit for the approval of His Majesty tjie names of persons [...] The first session of the Round Table Conference when wing into the question of the Indian Army was confronted by the fact that the greatest hindrance to the formation of a national army lies in the absence of military traditions and instincts in tit larger part of the country. [...] These rich landlords found that whilst possessing some of the semi-independent rights of the bigger feudatory Rulers of Rajputana and elsewhere these rights had been given away over their heads by the then powerless and decrepit Mogul Emperor to the representative of the British"THE STATES AND THE INDIAN ARISTOCRACY 35 mercJants by the grant to Lord Clive of the Dewani of the provinces of Bengal