The Dawn and Dawn Society’s Magazine January 1911

Thus out of 570 students on the rolls at the end of the official year 1908-09 399 belonged to the State of Baroda and the rest 171 were outsiders ; out of these 171 students 53 came from the several Native Indian States of Gujarat and KathiaN.ad ; 102 from the British territory of the Bombay Presidency ; 13 from the Central Provinces ; 2 from Bengal ; i from the Punjab ; and 1 from the Ma [...] Thus we note the striking fact t:iat Church dignitaries the leaders of the All-India Moslem League the representatives of Anglo-Indian opinion the leaders of the Reform Movement in the Sikh community as well as the representatives of the Hindu Community are all equally agreed on the question of the utilitarian value of numbers and of the need for the better organisation of their respective com [...] The Attitude of Contending Parties : The Christian Position ( A ) The present-day attitude of the contending religious parties in India towards religious questions the standpoint adopted by the professors of the different religious faiths in India in their treatment of religious problems is strikingly illustrated in the manner in which they handle the problem of the depressed classes in relation [...] Are the depressed classes to be treated and enrolled as Hindus ? If so how would that affect the relative position of the contending parties in the religious m-irket and specially how should that affect the position of the religion to which I belong ? Such is the consideration that is prominently present to the mind of the modern professors of religions and of the heads of the different Indian c [...] Whithead M. A. who formerly held a high position in the Indian educational world as Principal of the Bishop College of Calcutta in contributing an interesting article under the title The Outcastes of India to the Dacember 1909 number of the Nineteenth Century and After writes in the following strain :— When the whole 5o 000 000 (fifty millions) of the outcastes are brought under the eleva