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f DIFFICULTIES OF GOVERNk MENT CASTE BITTERNESS / HOSTILITY TO SIMON COMMISSION United Pre is Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright (Receive,) 13th April. 10.15 a.m. I SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Gardiner, retired police superintendent uf the I'niled Provinces of North India, who is on a visit to Australia, said that there was a feeling throughout India that it would be impossible for the Sim,,n Commission to submit a report which would he satis factory to all tactions. The Commission had met with a great deal of hostility through a number of educated agitators working through the country endeavouring to arouse the people lo extreme action, and no one could say what would happen when the. report was made, lie added that an almost insuperable obstacle to a successful form of administration was the intense caste bitterness between the Hindus and the Mohammedans. Many people were of the opinion that on this rock of caste hatred Would founder the hopes of an administration acceptable to all.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 April 1928, Page 5
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164INDIA Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 April 1928, Page 5
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