Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-28

The news from India IL bad From
Dacca comes intelligence OF the rearrest
OF the deported Pulin Be
Numerous hari Das, who Is charged
A,-re,%s with grave offenses. and
there is intimation OF far
reaching revelations, with bombs and in
eliminating literature discovered. In July,
according to the dispatches. there were
forty-five arrests of men OF wealth and
station. Also there had been an attempt
to wreck the Darjeeling mail train: the
murder OF the uncle OF the Rajah of Mol
danga, suspected of being an informer.
and documents had been discovered which
disclosed a widespread conspiracy extend
ing from Calcutta across eastern Bengal
into Assam. 1t is high time. says the
London Times. commenting thereon that
ministers and the viceroy should cease
making unsustainable assertions on the
favorable state Of India.
The present situation, says the author
OF an article in Blackwood's. entitled
THE Silent India" Is perplexing and
even pathetic. 1t is difficult for an old
An2lo-lndian like himself TO realize that
recent crimes could have been commit
ted or TO believe that the mass OF the
people, 80 docile and amiable il under
stood. is really seriously disaffected."
When the minds Of a people. however
docile and amiable, have once been stirred
by the fever Of freedom and Independence
the possibilities are always uncertain
quantities. This stirring up may have
been an accident entirely foreign to the
direction given 1t. Arab Pasha's revolt
in Egypt In 1879 was entirely military in
its inception: II was a revolt for twenty
months arrears of pay. which was star
vation: II was the starting point OF the
present Egyptian national party. which
has been consecrated by a prolonged
British occupation and the odiurh which
justly attaches to what all liberal Eng
lishmen term the crime at Denshawi."
What crime or crimes the British have
committed in India we do not profess to
know, but the 6isaffection of
British the ydocile people of that coun-
NJ try is doubtless due to the
e' iron hand Of some British pro-
consul. as was the case in Egypt. The
author of THE Silent India" has uncon-
sciously given US some clue. for In plac-
ing the population of India at ID. 361 .OJ6
Re tells US that. according to the census
OF 1901. one hundred million OF these
cannot read their native language. and
this means, besides. taxation without
representation" which must be as abhor-
rent to Indians as to Americans. There
is another point which appears obscure to
the Anglo-Indian author who sees things
in India through English glasses. He
does not see how India can become a ma
ton, because there Is no unity between
Bengali and Pathan. between Goorkha
and Mahratta, between Sikh and Ma
drassi. The Anglo Indian suffers from
at Young Turkey. whose recent union is
composed OF an infinity OF races and re-
ligions the most diverse and heretofore
the most hostile. Religion. race and
caste in India may sink beneath the
waves Of a national storm.
Such q storm warning has Just now
been announced by a correspondent OF
the London Times in a series of articles
remarkable for their frankness. He star
ties Englishmen by the declaration that
midas unrest is due to q Hindu revival.
generation ago. he says. the edu-
Gated Hindus were more English than
the English. They had then literary So
cities named Wordsworth, Browning,
Milton. Burke. John Stuart Mill. Kant,
Schlegel, Herbert Spencer and Darwin.
They never liked the Englishman. but
they respected him. But these impress
sions have faded and gone. and the re-
action is radical. The correspondent de-
clares: "In the younger generation Of
up a deep-seated and bitter hostility not
only to British rule and methods. but to
all the influence of western civilization
and q desire to rehabiiitate Hindu Gus
toms and beliefs" The fashion OF the
day In India is for religious REVEALS"
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The Arya-Samaj. which is spreading
over all India, represents both revolt
against Hindu orthodoxy
Vedantlc and against western
r,.,r ideas, and Dayarand.
Phllosophy. its founder. bases the
claim Of Hindu-that is. Aryan-su-
premacy on the vedas as the one ulti-
mate source Of human and divine wisdom.
The exalted character OF vedantic philos-
ophy has been widely recognized among
European students, and the political as
well as religious revival OF India has
been encouraged by British members Of
parliament and by European philan-
thropists. Max Muller and Deutsch
helped to revive the interest Of educated
Hindus in their ancient literature and
earlier religion. The campaign was
started In 1857 by such spirits as Edwin
Arnold, the author Of THE Light of
Asia" Americans have contributed to
the interest in Indian revival through
Col. Olcott and Nine. Blavatsky. Nine.
Blavatsky, who wrote Isis Unveiled"
was the high priestess OF theosophy and
did much to awaken India to her new
life. The writer was acquainted with
Nine. Blavatsky and bears witness to
her extraordinary ability, which resulted
in the revival OF the ancient faith.
The battle cries Of the new faith are
Swadeshi and Swaraj. but they mean
more than fiscal or polit-
Battle icai independence. they
mean an organized up
ViASs' lifting OF the old Hindu
social. intellectual. moral and
religious
The Indian press Is q potent factor In
the Indian unrest, we are told, In Its in
sidious appeals to the Hindu scriptures
and deities and its virulent denunciations
of the British.
The Hind Swarajya OF recent date
writes: "Englishmen, Who are English
men? They are the present rulers OF this
But how did they become our
rulers? BY throwing the moose of depen-
dence round our necks. by making US
forget our old learning. by leading us
along the path of sin, by keeping US
simple countrymen, BY their teaching
adultery has entered our homes and wom-
en- have begun to be led astray. Alas,
Has midas golden land lost all her
heroes?"