INDIANS IN AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18279, 21 December 1922, Page 9

INDIANS IN AUSTRALIA.

A VISITOR'S RESENTMENT.

TREATED WORSE THAN ALIENS.

Australian and N.Z- Cable Association. (Rccd. i-l p.m.) SYDNEY. Dec. 20.

Sir Dorabji Tata, an Indian magnate, and owner of the famous Jubilee diamond, valued at £500.000, in an interview here, expressed resentment at the attitude of a section of Australians toward Indians. He declared that the people of India are part and parcel of the British Empire. They threw themselves unreservedly into tho great war, neither men nor money being spared. Why, then, should they be treated as aliens, or worso than aliens, in parts of the Empire they sought to save?

He meant by " worso than aliens," that a foreigner, even as an enemy foreigner, could come to Australia, and in a few years seek naturalisation, whereas Indians were denied the franchise. It should not be forgotten that it was not the West that civilised the East, but. vice versa. India had an advanced civilisation when people in Britain were going about painted with woad. The contemptuous attitude of the West toward the East was calculated to inspire a sensitive people like the Indians with resentment.