INDIA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 January 1909, Page 7

INDIA.

i- MOHAMMEDANS AND HINDUS' , ." ' LORD MORLEY'S' DIFFICULT TASK. ' (HI TBtLatUlU—l'llMO IS^OOHUOJt-COftrtiaUT) I Calcutta, January \lr ' A temple >at Lakikholp-in tho Dacca'district nas deseorated, tho Koran being substituted for an. imago, t Tho Hindus aro greatly escitod. ' London, January 11 "Tho Times," commenting on the unrest m India, urge 3 Viscount iMorloy, Secretary of State for India, to reassure Mohammedan opinion before tho distrust ripens into settled hostility to his reforms.

t ;;. '<■■;■ \(Eeoi' January" 12,} : 9.55'p,m.^, ; i ;';i ? ,- ':]■■■■■:^ ; ,■ -.' i? ; v-Lbndon, Jaliu'ary 12^'. ;■': Tho King,;had. an interyiaw yynVb.-, Viscount Mofley i r«Bpßciing;affairß;m;lndia,-"r;-'- ; ---4: V Xt■?. nEFORM-CUM-RE^RESSJON.' '•Jα? ;'The follriwini? rtimarks ,by .•'Angio-lridlan' , ifr - the -Daily-: Mall", are tho uioro interesting.f roiii' •the fact thatmuph of- Vhat'h'e'Mvobatea tish^oiioy.has,-',since' ho -:&.>:,actuallyi lnateriaused:---. , . :• ;. ■-•/./■J-Sy^ri-'S•■.•■.•:'"'■'■£?;: %)"-, ;i/,'Vfitii -a, little, more isympttthy'lndia'.couli!* Bland alitu.o uioro soveritV: 4 }' 1 " 1 . ' ■ - ' ■ ; ■The question arisee whether the. time , ' has'hol, .tiome to, sapriflce.a little of. ; that '.Teffioiehey'-—' which makes.no ; appeal;to.:the oriental mind—'■ for tt. httlevju.ore laxity .'coupled : with" more individual responsibility. "DecontralisatiDtt"-iB a ..word abhorrent to the official. itliiiv tobe spokon. India is governed "from rSimla'.oriCalcutta aocording.to.the season. ; You,iukht ias , . w? 11 . ■ .try, : to.-: govern ' Europe-;'aiid'- the vSoar East from-todqn..:AWi ; rcform:' ! sdheme. c m{isf : reoognise .this;axiom,.and ; muSt.irestofe SOme^bf.that local initiative and responsibility of whieli the. telegraph..and the them; ■ i ":-. : . .-,..:..-■;■ ■■;'■-';•■■.■.-'.--v , .-.- '■-.'■■.:--'.' "...

l Representation' must be based' i buti on 1 oaste, or. the Brahman and - ! tlie lawyer It 1 ! 1 -' ?,°??P D " S ?; authority' to' tho. exolusidn-otf the Mohammedan ■; and others. '-. .•"'People ,who jndge-Mia \by the eye ■ :-wi Mri.r Wgme.that^ tMng;of the.kindj.iHs.niodifying some of tliß CiDßervanoesl but caste, remains;- to-day; as'stforiS -and: universal as it was .centuries ago Wl be.Centuries hence.'.; ; : : ; :;.;;■:; : --V^L'y*SA & Whether; tho -!of orms: wtiich l are --16; bo announced on,the,first day 'pttho.New .Year•willaffect any immediate improvement in ton is more,than doubtful.: .=. But:, they - 'he ..the Sympathy'l for which many are searainrf,' Jim maTjencoufftgo^ome"of-th«;.personal kind' I i a »L llt - e ' ."Pp™er.nmstibeijn&ed MttTthei jamiitTliereMst be an:ena;to,trials'for'siijiv non and polihoal murder and;vibleiioe-.thatdras on i ronv week : to week, es. In, a" r.eoent^netoribns'• s n e .-. c^ r good-m that direction. 1 .-' *- : % : ~:. r, ,, ■'•l'-" , -■ ■ But a farad?i qfiforce;is .■tie■people that s we-,are ; rma6t«rs:in:. ; fndiainHd Intend {o remain, .; The piovinee or Bengal, jvith an area three.times iasicreatvas:the Bri' hsh Isles and a populatiori-doiible that of Grent Britain, has wi&fi its /boundaries at Kh" :«nt foment only two-..British: battaliontrof >'hiflh one .is stationed in felcutta.' ;Tlie-fiafsvb" •*& oapll!l1 ra ™^» Jf^eyeis^sS, eoldier, , The new oonoenU'ftHon, has-removed' the oamps.to.isolated places; wherV prices grow ana comforts dwindle. ■. ~,-,',.-■-...i° .--••-. phasiaed by a Blue , Book- giving the .trade' tL tons for thb niifthoial yea^lSMS.:. Tie volumt : B :^: lß^^#^

• [It has been i ocimplrtino(l' 3 tlfot Ldrdi'Morlert reforms amount to political abandonment of"lu> Mohammedans,.■whose: lft'yaltj^dhring",S! fiedifaonserents i,os been to the Indian Government] "' : 5 7 ■"". ~