THE INDIAN IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7448, 24 May 1911, Page 7

THE INDIAN IN ENGLAND.

"The last decade has seen English; and Indians becoming more fraternal in India, but more aloof in England." So says a friend who came back from India last month. In-the "Oxford and Cambridge Review” Mr Alexander Ramsay writes on the Indian as an undergradur ate. He laments that the average undergraduate does not-mix with Indians at all. , The Indian in Oxford or Cambridge limits himself to the Indian circle; The Bast and West, a society in Cambridge, brings some thirty white and thirty black men together once a fortnight for fellowship and discussion:—"But no. one who has seen their demeanour at meetings of their own societies can suppose that they are at home in these gatherings. , The contrast is too marked. At the Society known as ‘The Majlis,’ for example, at Cambridge, -which , meets every Sunday evening, there is none of the self-con-scious timidity so often associated , with an Indian. Bows of shining teeth and merry feces confront a visitor, a babel of lighthearted-conversation; an altogether Asiatic liveliness, give him a glimpse of . how happy the Oriental, can and ought to be. The ‘Majlis’ includes almost all the Indians of Cambridge,'and they attain a most perfect amity. . The problem of uniting the peoples of India is solved.”