The Indian Review A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest December 1909

The common man who never bothers to search for the POSSOn of a practice which is santioned by custom or by what he calls religion blieves it sin to touch one of the depressed dames the expiation for which is a bath the shaving of the face or the handing over of a substentiel fine to the Brahmins. [...] 112 That it is the genuine demise of the great stateman who governs the destinies of this 'country at present with the whole-hearted co-operation of the representatives of the Crown in the country to introduce real Reforms and make substantial eocessions to Ate people no thoughtful native of India really doubts. [...] The halo of sanctity that surrounds the official world of India and invests it with that sanctioned superority of position privilege and power which at once dazzles the unthinking dames the weak and disgusts the discriminating is utilised by the Indian bureaucrat for the game that secures to him an uninterrupted enj 13-merit of the prmordial rule that the weak must suffer before the 'str [...] The sunshine in which he basks in the morning of his day is pleasant after the chill of the night but when the teln has gone to its meridian the heat will soon convince him that the shade of the drooping groves is the only shelter he hers against the buring rays. [...] The first sign of it was visible in the controversy that raged after the Mutiny as to the fact whether the liamsulmans were responsible for the mutiny or the Hindus.