The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India June 1884

Why then should not the Indian Government follow the example of the Home Government ? It may be said that the people and the Government are two distinct bodies in India ; in other words that the Government of India does not take the same interest in the people of India that the Home Government takes in the people of England ; that is the Government of India has no sympathy with the people. [...] It was all very well to say that the interference of the Government would not lessen but would aggravate the evil ; but the uneducated masses of the people of India might be said to be believers in the divine right of the king or the wisdom of authority ; and if legislation were proposed and if it was found that it did not provoke the opposition of the enlightened men of the country the people [...] The manner in which the people acquiesced in the abolition of suttee and of infanticide illustrated their confiding disposition in the divine right of the king or of the Government and furnished reason for believing that they would readily acquiesce in the abolition of their bad social customs. [...] Unfortunately hoever the wisdom of giving increased power to the Universities and of conferring a certain jurisdiction in elementary eductional matters on Local Boards seems to have been forced on unwilling ears and was accepted only from the impossibility of ignoring the consentient demand of the evidence for somthing of the kind and the desirability of suggesting some changes to j [...] 253 terity to recommend as the Commissioners do (16.) That the first charge on provincial funds assigned for primary education be the cost of its direction and inspection and the provision of adequate normal schools." On p. 333 the Government is recommended to increase the inspecting staff and to raise the pay of the officials ; while p. 311 shows the necessity for reducing the period of se