Triveni - Journal of Indian Renaissance October 1939

there is a definite quickening of movement as the play proceeds till the final catastrophe of the blinding of Kunala and the suicide of the queen overwhelms the audience by its tragic intensity. [...] He said In our dealings with them (the neighbours) the Foreign Department in India is becoming the Asiatic branch of the Foreign Office in England The geographical position of India will more and more push her into the forefront of international politics she will more and more'become the stratgical frontier of the British Empire." The imperialists know better than Seeley how the possession of [...] In the words of Marx: " The Indians will not reap the fruits of the new elements of society scattered among them by the British bourgeoisie till in Great Britain itself the now ruling classes shall have been supplanted by the industrial proletariat or till the Hindus themselves shall have grown strong enough to throw off the English yoke altogether.' This was written in 1853 when the Indian pro [...] It comes into prominence only during periods of acute class strugle in Britain or what Marx called the periods of the quarrelling of the aristocracy: the moneyocracy and the millcracy " The aristocracy wanted to conquer it the moneyocracy to plunder it and the millocracy to undersell it ' and later to develop it. [...] In 1853 as the merchants and the manufacturers demanded the abolition of the East India Company the demand for representation from the people of India could faintly be heard from the Madras Native Association the Bombay Association and the British Indian Association.