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Title: Indian Unrest
Author: Valentine Chirol
Release Date: August 5, 2005 [EBook #16444]
Language: English
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INDIAN UNREST
By
VALENTINE CHIROL

A Reprint, revised and enlarged, from "The Times,"
with an introduction by Sir Alfred Lyall

_We have now, as it were, before
us, in that vast congeries of peoples
we call India, a long, slow march
in uneven stages through all the
centuries from the fifth to the twentieth._

--VISCOUNT MORLEY.
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1910
DEDICATED BY PERMISSION
TO
VISCOUNT MORLEY
AS A TRIBUTE

OF PRIVATE FRIENDSHIP AND
PUBLIC RESPECT
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
INTRODUCTION. BY SIR ALFRED C. LYALL
VII
I. A GENERAL SURVEY
1
II. SWARAJ ON THE PLATFORM AND IN THE PRESS
8
III. A HINDU REVIVAL
24
IV. BRAHMANISM AND DISAFFECTION IN THE DECCAN
37
V. POONA AND KOLHAPUR
64
VI. BENGAL BEFORE THE PARTITION
72
VII. THE STORM IN BENGAL
81
VIII. THE PUNJAB AND THE ARYA SAMAJ
106
IX. THE POSITION OF THE MAHOMEDANS
118
X. SOUTHERN INDIA
136
XI. REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS OUTSIDE INDIA
145
XII. THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
154
XIII. CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS
162
XIV. THE DEPRESSED CASTES
176
XV. THE NATIVE STATES
185
XVI. CROSS CURRENTS
198
XVII. THE GROWTH OF WESTERN EDUCATION
207
XVIII. THE INDIAN STUDENT
216
XIX. SOME MEASURES OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM
229
XX. THE QUESTION OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
238
XXI. PRIMARY EDUCATION
246
XXII. SWADESHI AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS
254
XXIII. THE FINANCIAL AND FISCAL RELATIONS
BETWEEN INDIA AND GREAT BRITAIN
271
XXIV. THE POSITION OF INDIANS IN THE EMPIRE
280
XXV. SOCIAL AND OFFICIAL RELATIONS
288
XXVI. THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
306
XXVII. CONCLUSIONS
319
NOTES
335
INDEX
361
_The numerals above the line in the body of the book refer to notes at
the end of the volume._
INTRODUCTION.
BY SIR ALFRED C. LYALL.

The volume into which Mr. Valentine Chirol has collected and republished
his valuable series of articles in _The Times_ upon Indian unrest is an
important and very instructive contribution to the study of what is
probably the most arduous problem in the politics of our far-reaching
Empire. His comprehensive survey of the whole situation, the arrangement
of evidence and array of facts, are not unlike what might have been
found in the Report of a Commission appointed to investigate the causes
and the state of affairs to which the troubles that have arisen in India
may be ascribed.

At different times in the world's history the nations foremost in
civilization have undertaken the enterprise of founding a great European
dominion in Asia, and have accomplished it with signal success. The
Macedonian Greeks led the way; they were followed by the Romans; and in
both instances their military superiority and organizing genius enabled
them to subdue and govern for centuries vast populations in Western
Asia. European science and literature flourished in the great cities of
the East, where the educated classes willingly accepted and supported
foreign rulership as their barrier against a relapse into barbarism; nor
have we reason for believing that it excited unusual discontent or
disaffection among the Asiatic peoples. But the Greek and Roman Empires
in Asia have disappeared long ago, leaving very little beyond scattered
ruins; and in modern times it is the British dominion in India that has
revived and is pursuing the enterprise of ruling and civilizing a great
Asiatic population, of developing the political intelligence and
transforming the ideas of an antique and, in some respects, a primitive
society.

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