INDIANS IN THE EMPIRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19239, 1 August 1924, Page 5

INDIANS IN THE EMPIRE.

POLITICAL OR SOCIAL STATUS. t, : R i m uoT.ta.nt to remember that in India astt r?r fst T -hUv le^riew ra Tlie inequalities as between iSans teemselres in respect to the who e r C Tr C uUuiat°ed IntuntrS even begin to obtain a HingueiiJ-ijan thev imply in tho glimmering o civ j c disabilities until he Tomes into intimate touch with the problem. It will therefore be understood that the ripLioned cry of political India for equal citizenship’’ a« between Indians and British all over the Empire must not lead us to infer that tho ruling castca in India are in any way desirous of waiving them carte privileges to uring about the “equal citizenship of Indians in their own country. In other words, the doctrine of "equal citizenship m to be applied ruthlessly outside India, at the expense of the whit© men who have founded colonies and mode homes in the wilderness, and won barbarous continents for civilisation —for the benefit of the parasitic Indian im-mic-ants who, though incapaole of carrying oat an overseas colony or dominion for themselves readily attach themselves to any community ol white settlers; and, if unrestricted in numl>ei-s and admitted to equal citizenship, may ultimately reach a position of actna. ascondancv in the Administration. General stone adds that it would be well if politi-cal’v-mindod Indians would devote their attention to remedving the crying abuses from which the “depressed” classes in India suffer, owing to the cruel intolerance of the caste system, instead of persistently disturbing the social systems of other parts ox the Empire by forcing upon them immigrants who are not welcome and by claiming for them citizenship lights which are withheld from them in their own country-.