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...little Pratap Singh Rao Bhonsle had been studying things out with their own soothsayers, and these cried that the 28th of September was a calamitous choice for at least four different astrological reasons, and very quickly in the soothsaying circles of Kolhapur things were at sixes & sevens. The British Raj was informed and the date was canceled. Then the Government of India came up with a new date entirely-October 18-and that was the very date of dates, all the astrologers agreed, and so on that day next week little Pratap Singh Rao Bhonsle will become official heir-apparent...
...pointed to Jinnah's intransigence as an example of clashing Hindu-Moslem aspirations. It gave point to the British claim that Indian nationalists must unite before independence (preferably dominionhood within the Empire) will be granted. But efforts to promote a national wartime government were balked by the British Raj's refusal to allow any dealings with the jailed Gandhi...
Miss Mitchell has no quarrel with the British people, having more than a touch of their own spunk herself, but she cringes at the pious hypocrisy and old-school stupidity which British rule has clamped over India for 150 years. To her, the British Raj hasn't changed since Kipling left the Punjab. To the Raj, India is still the cornerstone of the Empire and must be held at all costs. The timeworn clichés with which excesses and failings have been shrouded Miss Mitchell attacks with a Bryn-Mawrian vigor implemented with the background of nine years...
Apologists for the Raj will scream that India Without Fable is an India without proper evaluation of the contributions of the British in flood control, civil administration and education toward eventual freedom. The apologists may also have a point in criticizing Miss Mitchell's support of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The great & good Nehru, before being jailed for the second time in World War II, contended that Indians armed with guns and freedom, would fight invading Japanese. The Raj believed armed Indians would only fight among themselves (or turn their guns on their present rulers...
...most progressive of India's 562 princely rulers, the young (34) Maharaja (19 guns) flew from his province of Indore to Karachi en route to the U.S. He left to visit his sick wife and because of his own "grave reasons of health," the British Raj contended. But Indians put two and two together...