The Grey River Argus Dnd Blackball News.

Grey River Argus, 1 July 1914, Page 4

The Grey River Argus Dnd Blackball News.

QeliTeted orety morning in Ureymoutb. Kantiia, Uokrtika, P^bioH, Walliend, -Taylor, vnlle, Btunuerton, StUlWiter. Ngahitro, Bl^pkbafi, NfUaon ;Oseo)ti, Alauta, Ikamatuß, VV»mtiv, ' Baeltpa, Cronodan, Kduauga, Dunpllie. Cobittn, B&xtet'a, Kokin, Jfatara, Kaimaituv AiAtiKa., KQtnfcu, fiionna, Bnra, Te Kiuga, Bntomanu' Foecaa, 1 .... bonnie« Jaokious ana Uti.»i . - > ••' ■'••-■.•*•■ ■■■ ---■■■ '■ ■■.-.. ;•!•»■/.; -.

: WEI3NE3DAY, JULYjist:; • rgj4

. /fhoTc seems, to be no dimiimtion in ptho .nuniber' of ; c.anspiracies and poll-. : tical crimes in India,.' and whenever one of. these offenders is released after % '■ serving* a . term of imprisonment he is 'received as a martyr by the populace. There is no gainsaying the fact ' that wi _spiti},\o%allrthat ; England" has done for India "the great mass of the ••pe'ople sullenly resent -^he presence of' alien .conquerors. 'The root .of th© disaffection,, does /not He in the lower, classes, for the sedition is led and en-

courageel by those who have received their education in the western schools. The whole struggle against the British: raj may be traced to the educated Hindus, and if we ask ourselves the reason for' this we will find it in the very nature of the education imported. The education system is utterly wrong. It is purely a matter of memory. The Hindu children begin by copying out letters and figures,_the meaning of which is beyond their, comprehension, and they proceed to 'learn by rote rules and facts which are either unintelligible or totally at variance with their traditions and religious doctrines. In those feats of mental gymnastics the Hindu is seen at his best. He has. a very retentive, memory, he is very industrious, and, above" ail, he is filled with a consuming ambition to equal if not excel, his white masters. By dint of incessant cram ho obtains a . Government scholarship which gives him admission to one of the secondary schools. The incessant study undermines his constitution <and he passes on to the University a menprodigy but a physical wreck In due time, he proceeds to. .an English University and obtains liis degree. Be returns to his native countrp full of high aims and aspirations In England he has been treated on terms of equality by his fellow English students, and he considers that he is equal if not superior to his English friends. His return to India rudely awakens him to his true position among the AngloIndians who : dominate society. - To •them he is only a "nigger," and as such he is debarred from admission to the clubs au,d decent white society. Naturally he feels resentment, and his anger finds vent in seditious utterances in the vernacular press. This "higher education of the Babu," from which the English Government expected su much, has recoiled upon them like a boomerang, and given rise to a most serious conditi on of affairs in our great Eastern Empire. It is not that the education received by the native is altogether superficial and mechanical, and that . his, mental apparatus is- setin motion' without a corresponding stinaulation of his reasoning powers. The main trouble is that the education of the Hindu on English lines means superimposing IVestern ideas on a foundation composed of traditions and ancient' beliefs peculiar to the East/ $ucfr a structure can only fall in ruins and bring destruction on its builders. India is not a savage country that ,we >vie trying to C ivilise. It has its own ciilisation more ancifint than that w4ii(\i we are attempting to substitute for it. Ju spite of 'our pride of race we are borrowing more and more from the philosophy and religion of India; The Oriental whether Mohammedan or Hindu, who spends the most /plastic portion of his life in England, ;, returns to India and finds himself neither an [ l-rnglishmannor an Indian. Plots and 'intrigues with which W becomes inv;ofVed are his method of reasserting his racial equality with that of tl>< English.^ '■.'■.-:/•.