UNREST IN INDIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8218, 23 August 1906, Page 3

UNREST IN INDIA.

The 'Pioneer' has been causing some sensation in India by suggesting that the attitude of the native population towards the English is oeooming lebs friendly. Instances are given of native resentment of tb«j 'injust'.oe and insolence with which the Englishman treats the Indian,' and disuontent, especially among the educated classes, is declared to be stronger and more open now than for many years. A very well-known authority in IndiH, who recently held a high position there, has been telling a London interviewer that be is inclined to agree with this view. "Western education in India naturally brings discontent. It is a buman.instinut to want a finger in the pie, and nauy upper-class natives are growing more and more disappointed that representative government does not coee more quickly. We take much away from them. l?ilforing is less easy; their influencn is diminishing. But they retain their education , and want their old influence. The native Congress, uiostly lawyers, waut to rule the roost; and for a long time past they have been looking tn English Liberalism to help them." The Liberal party, however, does not mean to treat India from a party point of view, and the .Congress consequently is disappointed. The endeavour to make Mr Morley believe that India is eeething with discontent has failed. This authority tbinkß that the agitation will die a natural death if no notice is taken of it, but bu recognises the difficulty which faces the English Administration. India ib becoming better educated, but progress in Hdminstration goes on more rapidly than progress in education, so the natives cannot be admitted to a share of the administration without the work tt oing back. Is effioienoy to be sacrificed, or is India to be regarded merely to be governed as well as possible? I3e admits candidly that British rulers are harsh in their view of Indian aspirations. They lose their sense of proportion, and when soandalised by native municipal misdeeds, ask in disgust "Are these people fit to govern themselves?" quite forgetting the soandal or Poplar. 'lhe natives are beginning to resent the practice of some of their rulers of going Home on leave whenever they can, and □ever really settling down in the country. "And the intolerance and arrogance of young .Englishmen, chiefly young offioers, to native servants and natives generally, is a very, serious matter. These youths dismiss'servants for the most trifling acts, for disobeying orders which they,have not understood, for practically nothing. And you may see thetn driving through the street, lashing out right and left to clear a road, and creating the most serious ill-feeling. It is a pity. English oivilian of&oials behave better."