INDIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XLII, Issue 3433, 30 June 1894, Page 5

INDIA.

Tile Hon, Oday Pertap Singh, C.5.1., Rajah of Bhinga, in a short paper in the Nineteenth Century on "The Cow Agitation, or the Mutiny Plasm in India," utters a serious warning of the results which may follow the misapplied energies of tho English faddists:-" A taste lor harassing the Government is (he writes) springing up in the country, and the cow agitation has more an its motive than appears on its surface. The time is not far distant when there will he Nihilists here in India as well as in countries farther west, ... May I ask on what principles of equity and justice we are held responsible tor the preservation of peace within the limits of our-estates, when every trespasser is licensed to preach sedition openly ? , . Fortunately, illwill towards their foreign rulers has not entered the minds of the native array, but the time is near at hand when the Government will have to rely on the British soldiers alone. . . I assert, at the cost of being thought disrespectful to the faddists in. the 'British Parliament, and at the risk of my effigy Ibeing burnt at the next Congress 'meeting, ;tVat of late years not'asingle measure of the British Government has been of a character to encourage loyalty, I earnestly hope that some honourable member will put the question to the House of Commons, asking how many landed estates have been purchased by native revenue officials in the names "of their uncles and cousins during the last twenty-five years by taking improper advantage of their official position, Those who wish to build their pleasure houses on the ruins of our family dearths can hardly be expected to be our friends The simultaneous examinations which those anxious to govern India from Eng r land deem a blessing, would be a burse not only to the upper classes here, 'but to" the country at large, In the name of humanity I appeal to the British statesmen and ;,the British capitalists to turn their serious attention to our country before its Governmpnt is reduced to chaos."