TAMING INDIAN TRIBES.
Sir John Hewett, Lieut.-Governor of the Punjab, speaking at a Salvation Army meeting, said (reports the Chronicle) that the Salvation Arm\, under the control of Commissioner Booth-Tucker, had been giving the greatest possible assistance to the efforts which the local Government was making to reform some of the criminal tribes. The Army had taken over a settlement of Doms in Gorakhpur, and was about to take over the Bhatus and Haburahs in Moradabad. He was in hopes that in time it might be able to extend its operations so as to deal with some of the Sansias, who at present troubled many parts of the United Provinces. The greatest difficulty had been experienced by the Government in its attempts to reform these tribes, but it seemed to him that light was beginning to be thrown on the matter by means of the method of the Salvation Army. The success of the Bara Banki Weaving School had resulted in a great measure from tho adoption of the Salvation Army hand loom,"and one of the most effective means by which Commissioner Booth-Tucker was hoping to divert tho Doms from criminal to industrial pursuits, was by teaching them weaving by means of this loom.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1910, Page 10
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204TAMING INDIAN TRIBES. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1910, Page 10
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