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Unhappy India

1927

The Imperialists divide theselves into two parties: (a) The advocates of pure force and no nonsense; (b) The liberals who trot out the plea of trusteeship by convincing the wards' inside and the world outside that the people are unfit to rule themselves and that the best interests of the ruled themselves demand a never-ending continuance of the trusteeship. [...] attempt to hasten" self-government in the Philippines will probably be used to discredit the policy applied to India in the pronouncement of 1917.' Miss Mayo protests that she has written the book only for the use of her own people but she has not yet told us of what use a wholesale denunciation of the Indian people could be to the people of the United States unless it was the same kind of use f [...] L. Curtis the champion of British imperialism and Miss Mayo the author of The Isles of Fear which led to Miss Mayo's visit to the India Office en route to India ' early in October 1925.' Who introduced her to the authorities of the India Office? [...] The carefully chosen quotations give it the appearance of a truthful book but the impression it leaves on my mind is that it is the report of a drain inspector sent out with the one purpose of opening and examining the drains of the country to be reported upon or to give a graphic descrition of the stench exuded by the open drains. [...] Gandhi that Miss Mayo has had a good sniff at all the filthy drains of India.' He calls her book a lie and a false picture.' The Executive Committee of the National Christian Council of India which is presided over by the Lord Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India asserts that the picture of India which emerges from Miss Mayo's book is untrue to the facts and unjust to the people of Ind
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Introduction
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Chapter I. The Argument
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Chapter II. The Light Through the Ages
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Chapter III. The Light that Failed
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Chapter IV. Learning and Earning—and Hard Headed Americans
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Chapter V. A Counsel of Perfection
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Chapter VI. History of Compulsory Primary Education
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Chapter VII. ‘Why is Light Denied?’
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Chapter VIII The Hindu Caste System
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Chapter IX. He Untouchable—his Friends and his Exploiters
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Chapter X. Less than the Pariah
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Chapter XI. Less than the Pariah—Concluded
132-150 Lajpat Roy view
Chapter XII. Woman in India: A Retrospect
151-174 Lajpat Roy view
Chapter XIII. Woman and the New Age
175-185 Lajpat Roy view
Chapter XIV. Early to Marry and Early to Die
186-191 Lajpat Roy view
Chapter XV. The Hindu Widow
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Chapter XVI. The Devadasi
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Chapter XVII. Schooling Free of Charge’
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Chapter XVIII. The Sex Urge in the West
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Chapter IX. A Present to Mr. Winston Churchill
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Chapter XX. Muck-Rakers whom we Know
269-277 Lajpat Roy view
Chapter XXI. The Hygiene of the Hindus
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Chapter XXII. Why the Cow Starves
290-300 Lajpat Roy view
Chapter XXIII. India—Home of Plenty
301-318 Lajpat Roy view
Chapter XXIV. India—‘Home of Stark Want’
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Chapter XXV. Poverty—The Rock-Bottom Physical Base of India’s Ills
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Chapter XXVI. Some Aspects of the Drain to-Day
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Chapter XXVII. Some Aspects of the Drain to-Day—Cofcld
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Chapter XXVIII. Divide Et Impera’
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Chapter XXIX. ‘The Sons of the Prophet’
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Chapter XXX. Britishers on British Rule
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Chapter XXXI. The Story of the Reforms
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Chapter XXXII. ‘Cumbrous Complex Confused System’
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Chapter XXXIII. India—A World-Menace
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Appendix I Some Opinions about ‘Mother India’
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Appendix II. Depressed Classes
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Appendix III. The Government of India and Caste
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Appendix IV
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Index
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