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India and the Future

1917

175) it is very justly remarked that : The problems legal philosophical historical and social with which an Indian civil servant will have to deal in after life involving as they do the whole question of the interaction of the east and the west are among the most complex in the history of the world and the universities can play a great part in their solution by prviding the organization [...] Behind that purple haze lie Kashmir the poet's fableland ; Lahore the capital and Amritsar the holy city of the Sikhs ; the glorious mosques palaces and mausoleums of Delhi and Agra of Fatehpur Sikri and Bijapur ; the tragic fastnesses of the Rajputs ; Benares unique in its squalid sublimity ; the huge and sinister temples of the South ; upstart t mokbreathing emporiums of the sea-borne in [...] It dealt mainly with the question of the change of capital ; but the passage which was most eagerly read and welcomed in India ran as follows : It is certain that in the course of time the just demands of Indians for a larger share in the government of the country will have to be satisfied and the question will be how this devolution of power can be conceded without impairing the supreme author [...] The instinct of the European is to assume' without furtiher inquiry the inferiority of everyone who wears like Othello the shadowed livery of the burnished sun." Even the olive complexion of an Italian or Spimiard is a little suspicious to the peoples of the North. [...] The difference between the negro and the Indian is so enormous that the comparison seems cruel to the one and insulting to the other ; but I know not how else to make clear the absurdity as well as the brutality of in any way associating the dark races of Asia with those of Africa.
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Pages
358
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145555
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-x William Archer view
A Postscript-Proem
xi-ii William Archer view
Prologue
1-8 William Archer view
I A Bird’s-Eye View
9-20 William Archer view
II Two Sides to the Racial Medal
21-39 William Archer view
III The Unity of India
40-50 William Archer view
IV Hindu Spirituality
51-82 William Archer view
V Caste and its Concomitants
83-102 William Archer view
VI Manners
103-118 William Archer view
VII The Indian Opposition
119-177 William Archer view
VIII Art and Culture
178-239 William Archer view
IX Education
240-274 William Archer view
Epilogue
275-296 William Archer view
Index
297-304 William Archer view

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