THE DISCONTENT IN INDIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13750, 15 May 1908, Page 3

THE DISCONTENT IN INDIA.

t j Sir.- With your mterMißf I>''-'.der hi Nfnts< u;iy't- paper c ''.ifi ruing India, I am jit if-vise, I but m your t*»Jmftns art- always open i «'«> differ from yw» f. do nofr-'he*hi(tfl. t<> ! write. since the iirilter t. <■! -'}«>•• iu>|K<ruims i and one which tin l general tone of • pit bin.: j opinion may musideßtldy jtßcci. 1. Wvo I Iwa well acquainted with Indian* who barn j not a •nportirial Wr.-tevn education, but one j a a deep as that which the Itwt of uA.-fXiaff*. • j ' find that ataoriij those tin-,re itf\a -dtthp growing discontent, »nd that bectmn of ih» change in British 1 policy in vrljitj-.u *< Indian matter#, a change- most marked tn.tim.viM have knowledge. Briefly put, up to'' stwni tinv.' ago, to which n.» < \.n > tlftta on'"bo- • signed, but perhajK may be. m.irked iff !h» adoption <>! the, term " Umpire," BrUijlv government ><{ India stfempd honestly aimed at the yradttal education of Indian* ii! their.««u affair*, with a view to wjlf-poiermHenl . • • 1W since that period the Jdvprtuactit lias bfiCdßta more definitely and avowedly autocratic. It is became Indian government, is growing more tyrannous. and - not bactuiwt it ban- l*M»« introducing Western- idea?. that di»a!l<H £:jou i< now rapidly spreading. -Under VimiW ■ eir-ciiin.-tuiio's we would become dis%Be<;tedVdurselves 1 , and rightly -o. - Autocracy, iii'-ann rebellion and revolution ft!! the world oyer, A' one small instance of th« cliance .to wham-' I refer, quite recently higher portions 'ill' fh<s Civil .Service previously'upon on equal terms to Indian* and English have now been practically confined to the latter; lite examination.* Iwitift restricted to England, and the. «al«rie« j for Indians reduced to a lower scale. M. C. iHVt.VK.