The Political Future of India

The prince and the peasant the landlord and the ryot the professor and the student the politician and the layman all have spoken. [...] All methods of agitation were resorted to in order to make the opinion of the country known to the Government and to warn the letter against the danger of defying the united will of the people. [...] Why should the whole cost of that building in Charles Street including the building itself be an item of the Indian taxpayer's burden rather than of this House of Commons and the people of the country?""6 THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF INDIA Can and does the House of Commons control the India Office? [...] On that date he made in the House of Commons the following memorable statement: The policy of His Majesty's Government with which the Government of India are in complete accord is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual develoment of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in I [...] The cities and consequently the middle classes forincd but an insignificant factor in the population." These quotations reveal the real character of the European democracy in ancient and medimval and even in early modern Europe up to the end of the eighteenth century or to be more accurate to the time of the French Revolution.