The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-09-05
EUROPEANS IN INDIA.
How They Are Distributed Throughout,
the Country.

How They Are Distributed Throughout
the Country.
There are 140, 900 Europeans in India.
These are scattered over the land. The
soldiers are in places deemed best fitted
for strategic purposes, sometimes as
regiments, frequently as a moiety of
regiments, very seldom in small bands
Non-military Europeans are most MI
merOus in the presidency cities Calcut-
ia, Madras and Bombay, but even in
these they form very small part of the
population. For instance, there are
only 5000 in Calcutta, which has pop
ulation of 100000. They are found in
smaller numbers in the great cities of
the interior, such as Delhi, Agra and
Allahabad. AT the headquarters of dis.
tricts there are few European officials,
and generally few non-ollicials.
Many of our people are very solitary,
living often at great distance from
their European brethren. In our sur.
vey of Europeans in India we may be.
gin with English sailors in Indian
ports when the census was taken, and
who, we suppose, were included in it.
The character of our sailors at home
and abroad is well known. The re-
straint on board ship during long voy.
ages is followed in most cases by H.
cense on shore. In country like India
the license has often taken peculiarly
revolving form. Once, when sailing
down the Hoogly, we had as fellow
passenger an old inhabitant of Calcut-
ia, who pointed out to us grove near
one of the places where large vessels
were often anchored for days, where
sailors were allowed to land, and where
scenes were enacted which in vileness
could not have been exceeded by the
worst orgies OF heather na-
tons. Such scenes are no longer
witnessed, but still, when on
leave from their ships, with
many the grog-shops and houses
of infamv are the favorite resorts The
more respectable natives dread them,
and keep aloof from them, but class
of low natives pander to their vices,
While there is Still much to deplore in
our sailors, much has been done and is
being done for their improvement in
character and conduct. Not few
have become decided Christians, and
the wickedness of many more has been
restrained. Their treatment on board
ship is better; the voyages are shorter
many are on board steamers that are
never for a long period at sea; many
can read, and much is done to supply
them with good books. We have men,
toned that of the lao, 900 Europeans in
India no fewer than 60, 900 are soldiers
They form very important and indis
pensable portion of the community
Let them be withdrawn, let it be known
all over the Indian continent that they
are withdrawn, and our Government
would speedily collapse. We do no
say that our Government because alien
rests mainly on force. 1t rests largely
on the goodwill of the nations of In
dia, and that good will rests on theil
being justly Mud wisely ruled; but il
the ambition and interests of various
classes there are elements of strife
ready tc burst into a desolating storm
if unrestrained by the knowledge of
power which can not be successful,
resisted. Neither is it just to say tina
our army is maintained to fasten dow
a foreign yoke on the neck Of India L
does maintain our power; without it il
the great mutiny we should have beel
swept away, but it maintains our powe
to preserve peace and order all owe
the continent If withdrawn, we be
lieve scenes of bloodshed and anarch,
would soon be witnessed such as tn,
world has seldom seen. We may wei
attach high value to body of mel
SO indispensable for our security AM
the fulfilling of our national vocation.
--2Ae British Quarterly Review