The Indian Review March 1914 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest

In addition a large number of Indians have been smuggled into the country thereby in some measure defeating the harsh regulations of the American Government and considerably increasing the number of settler& Indeed the increase has been so great that the official figure of 6 656 fails to give a correct idea of the strength of Indians in the Pacific States. [...] He openly laid down in a Resoltion issued under the authority of the Goverment of India that as a general principle of the British administration of India it was essential among other things that the highest ranks of civil employment in India--those in the Imperial Civil Service the members of which are entrusted with the responsible task of carrying on the general administration of the c [...] For such mesures as the deportations the Seditious Meetings Act the Newspapers Offences Act and the the Criminal Jurisdiction Act Lord Minto has been the recipient of a good deal of sting and unpleasant criticism at the hands of the Indian people; while at the hands of the bureaucracy here of the Fuller type and of its counterpart in England he had been mercilessly criticised for the great [...] The enlargement of the various Legisla tive Councils the admission of Indians into the Executive Councils of the Viceroy the Governors and the Lieutenant-Governors in fact his general policy of conciliating the educated classes have abundantly been justified. [...] The foundation-stone of the whole system is the reconition of identity of interests between the Imperial Government and the Durbars and the minimum of interference with the latter in their own affairs.