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...England such a man would be a fairly good insurance risk. At Sunderland last week one Charles Edward Smith burst through a crowd, jumped on the running board of Edward of Wales's slowly moving limousine. Without display of firearms Mr. Smith was quietly arrested but released from custody when he pleaded...
Writes Dr. Sunderland: "Seemingly Kipling's association in India with the English must have been almost exclusively with the military men and with the most imperialistic and domineering of the civil officials. As to India itself, the real India, the great India of the past and the present, with its history and its civilization, he seems to have cared nothing for this, and to have taken no pains to inform himself about it. As to the Indian people, he seems never to have cared to associate or to become acquainted with any but the lowest. Unless we make these...
...basis of his own study of the Indian Civil Service-here exhaustively examined-Dr. Sunderland concludes that "the British government in India can, if it will, set up as its successor an Indian government with every official position in it, from Viceroy to policeman, filled by fully competent Indians, quite as competent as the men who fill the positions...
Startling are some of the many statements quoted from potent Britons, past and present, to show that in unguarded moments even staunchest Imperialists share a measure of Dr. Sunderland's views. For example, as long ago as 1911, Lord Morley, then Secretary of State for India, described the native officials in the Indian Civil Service as men "as good in every way as the best of the men in Whitehall" (i.e. equals of the officials in Britain's own Civil Service...
Uncle Sham. Dr. Sunderland adds an appendix chapter roundly flaying, firmly negating Katherine Mayo's popular U. S. handbook of Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba...