INDIANS IN ENGLAND.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14053, 10 November 1909, Page 3

INDIANS IN ENGLAND.

COMPLAINTS BY AN INDIAN. In M. Chandra Pal's magazine, "Swaraj" an Indian graduate in England discusses the advantages and disadvantages of England as a place, of study for Indians. He says England is by no means so useful a place to study as in Germany, France or ; the United States. England has no system in her education, and its methods want a complete- remodelling. England uses old world methods and adheres to obsolete appliances. America and Germany are progressive, England is falling away. But England is not-even as free and as hospitable as other countries. The Indian Graduate says:—

Every Englishman—the commonest labourer —considers you a slave, and treats you as an inferior. Children follow yon in the streets, calling vou "blackic" and "uin.sor," and when you 1 go in the "tube' or on a 'bus. everyone stares at you as if to sav you had no business there. Low-class women laugh at your face, make faces at you and insult you while you are nnietly walking. A mimW of landladies strongly object to have TwVaiis Mini refirse them. In many a family it has happened that immediately those families have :<n Indian "wiving guest." their friends hf'c censed to call unon them because thee is a "block ntnn" in tho bous". C—tunlv a. "familv" suffers in the e=tim"t : on nf its neirrhliours whe" it receive* <hat >"- fer<V>r being, that .hateful creature, the Indian. Contract with Hi's the treatment b n receives in Fran'" 1 , in fWnn»y. nn'l in America. Tn Fran-". +hn r « is h"-d----lv anv "colour .The Frenchman is so polite, makes vim at once at home with him. and is alwavs anxioifc to oblige. He is naturally not very anxious to make you reel that you are standing before a superior, as the Englishman does. Ho is perhaps not so conscious of tho fart that you belong to a, conquered race. All this increases your self-respect immensely. There is no Indian Office to shadow you, no Anglo-Indian to embitter your feelings, no "yellow press" to write venom about you'. Tho same in Germany, where a German would come with you two hundred paces to stiow vou the way because you do not understand his language and cannot follow his directions. In America there is colour-prejudice,. but only against the xVegroes. To tho people of India, the are kind. They are anxious to please them, to make theni feel what a good und a great people they are. . The moral he draws is that JMiglanu is the last place to which an Indian father should send his son for education. ~ , , ~ Mr Lajpat Rai contributes to the Modem Keview a vehement denunciation of caste. He says:—There can lie no denying the fact that the rigidity of the Hindu caste system is the baiie of Hindu society. It is a great harrier in tho way of the social and national progress of the Hindus. It confronts them at every step and slackens the speed with which, otherwise, the nation would climb up to the heights of national solidarity. The condition of the "low" castes, sometimes described as " untouchables," at other times as the "depressed classes," is nothing short of disgraceful. It) is a disgrace to our humanity, our sense of justice, and our feeling of social affinity. It is useless to hope for any solidarity so long as the depressed classes continue to lie so low in the social scale as they are. The intellectual and moral status of the community as a whole cannot be appreciably raised without the co-operation of all the classes forming the community .