Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-28
INDIA'S UNREST; A HINDU REVIVAL

maintains that sedition is meaningless
nom the Indian point Of view:
II the whole nation Is Inspired 70 throw
on It's yoke and become independent. then
In the eye OF God and the eye OF Justice
whose claim Is more reasonable. the In-
dams or the Engiishman'sw
The Poona Kat writes as follows:
"A holy inspiration IL spreading thao
people must sacrifice their lives In tho
cause OF what has once been determined
TO be their duty. Heroes are srringing up
I'm our midst. though brutal imprisonmenS
reduces them TO skeletons
The Dacca Gazette welcomes the festi-
val OF the Durka. the terrible goddess"
with this cry:
Indian brothers, There is no more
time for lying asleep. Behold the mother
Ii coming. oh mother. the giver OF all
good Turn your eyes upon your degrad-
ed children Mother they are now
stricken with disease and sorrow. Oh.
OF human affiictions. relieve our sorrows.
Come. mother. the destroyer OF the de-
mons, and appear at the gates OF Ben
gal"
The sahaik Of Lahore touches upon
economical questions and saws:
"A commission ION English quinine) 10
about TO sit on the heights OF Simla. The
commissioners will enjoy feasts and dances
and drink brandy which will cost poor
natives lakhs OF rupees and afterwsrd
they will devise means TO develop the
trade in quinine and other drugs"
The nationalist press IS especially Sc
we're on the judges. Mr. Justice ravar
was one OF these who sentenced Tilak
The Kesari declared that he has al
ready settled the Judgment In his own
mind after a careful consideration OF ex-
ternal circumstances. The Judge made
himself the laughing stock or the whole
l<a t1a aLay tn no
fable. who came TO grief I'm trying TO pull
out the peg from a haif-sawed beam"
The London Times correspondent In In
dia rs particularly versed In Indian az
fairs. and what he SAYS after long and
serious study has excited interest and
alarm in England. The correspondent
avoids all reference 10 any connection or
the Indian question with the European
question. Yet we cannot refrain from ex-
pressing the suspicion that encourage
ment may be given the Indian nv certain
powers directly interested In holding In
dla "a sword suspended over the head
OF England.
The Times devotes leading articles Of
comment upon its correspondents article.
The editor affects TO see In the confessed
unrest nothing political. but something
that is entirely social and religious.
mere waste OF words such as pretension.
since we know by experience that social
and religious questions are fatally polit-
ical.
a
The Times asks n the blended policy OF
repression and concession adopted by
Lord Morley and Lord
Pertinent Mimic has cowed the forces
A. OF criminal disorder and
~ueiies. rallied the representatives
OF moderate opinion to the cause os So
Der and constitutional progress? or has
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rest the former or to restore confidence
and courage to the latter?
And the Times consoles itself that the
poison rs limited TO the urban population.
and declares that the "Mahometans.
| the great Hindu princes and mobiles are
with us. We can stay the plague III we
| will. but to stay IL We must exert all our
| old powers and all our old gifts of rule
Sir Edward Grey may be of that mind.
| inasmuch as under similar unrest In
Egypt, and following the suggestion OK
Lord Cromer. he has declared that Eng
| land will exert her old powers In Egypt.
| But 1t is extremely doubtful that Sir Ed.
wards policy will be adopted by lfberal
| ministry. 1t Is almost certain that Sir
Edward Grey will either submit to tho
policy OF Mr.. Asquith and Lord Morley
or he viii be obliged to pass his portfolio
| to another.
The correspondent maintains that thu
system of education introduced In India
by England is lamentably deficient ana
has bred the actual unrest. II has Gre
| ated q semi-educated proletariat, unem-
ployed and largely unemployable ana
even a dangerous hybrid specifically I'm.
bued with western ideas. The corresponds
ent touches upon a point which l have
remarked In my own experience. which
! Is often the tombstone OF oriental dis
affection and even hatred for the occiS
dental. 1t Is contained in the following:
THE remarkable rise I'm prices during
a Cd sh.s
very classes among whom disaffectfoa
is most widespread. The clerk. the teach
er. the petty government official. whose
exiguous salaries have remained the
same. find themselves today relatively
| worse of than the artisan or even the
laborer, whose wages have in many cases
risen i'm proportion to the increased cost
of living"
The correspondent cites other causes OF
disaffection which have not until now
found their way In the
Troublous English press. He refers
specially to the fiscal re-
ToesoAs' straints upon Indian indus
tries. and the favors. on the other hand.
conferred upon the British manufacturer
and trader. Then there is the treatment
Of British-Indians In South Africa ana
the attitude generally adopted toward
Asiatics in the colonies. The Indian
mind. IL should be added was shocked
and painfully impressed by the terrible
defeats inflicted by the Beers upon an
army they had been led to believe was
invulnerable. and this lowered British
prestige. Then again the Russo-Japanese
war came another rude blow 10 the
asserted predominance OF the European
over the Asiatic. The blow was the more
dangerous that the Japanese official re-
ligion was Buddhistic, which was the
same, I'm a large measure. as their own
The awakening OF a national spirit was
felt I'm China in Egypt. In Turkey, In
Persia, and there is little wonder that
ii should be reawakened in India.
Disaffection I'm India. In truth. Is not
epidemic. but endemic. More than a
quarter or century ago the Indian gov
eminent adopted a special bill TO curb the
violence OF the native press, which had
resulted In the murder OF some British
officials at Poona.
The problems i'm India appear TO be
more complex and difficult than Official
optimism Is inclined to admit The cor
respondent, however, finds consolation In
the declaration that mot a single Ma
hometan OF any account Is to be found In
the ranks OF disaffected politicians
Disaffection In the east when endemic
Is a condition which may not be treated
lightly, and the union which has taken
place in Young Turkey is a lesson in evo-
luton which should not be ignored A
Hindu revival contains vast possibilities.
Besides the orient is the land par excel
lence in which the unexpected always