GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1605, 9 July 1887, Page 3

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

The " Asiatic Quarterly Review " contains a somowhat remarkable article on the social intercourse between the ruled and the rulers of India, by Ragoonath Row, the Prime Minister of lodoroj m which he points out some of the faults of Europeaus m their conduct towards the Hindus, and reminds the former that political and. social intercource will not suffice to bind the two racas together ; there must be religious intercourse and this oan only be bro eight about by the exercise of mutual toleration. He seems to think that the administration of jtuaico was better, and the general demeanor cf the governiug olassea more CJncUiatory, before the Mutiny than they have been since. Formarly, he says, " the Hindu fought, counselled, and obtained country after country for the British, looking upon ! them as God-sent angels of protection from daooits, like thoae of Burmah now. It Is a fallacy," he adds, " to suppose that India 1b a oonquered country. It is a country acquired bp the British with the aid, the good feeling, and the blood of the Native." And he concludes by urging both upon the former aad the latter such a line of conduct aa will be conducive to their f oturo peace and harmony. " Sympathha," he writes, "shonld he demonstrated by sharing ia the griafa and juya of each other. Such conduct will surely secure to all the fellow subjects of one Sovereign and the children of one father common happiness, with out which no country, however governed, can be a strength to the governors and the governed," I a an article on the Public Service of Indu Sir Le.pel Griffin advocates the imposition of some restraint upon the iioenfle of the Nativo Press, and recommends that the Government should resume the powers It haß lately reaigned, and establish a Native Civil Service, with competition between carufally nominated and selected candidates." And he adds; "I would insist upon a compulsory athlotic test m horsemanship and the use of anna. The magistrate who cannot ride twenty miles across oountry to inquire into a murder, or who would be afraid to shoot dead with his revolver tha leader of a riot, may well be left to the counting-house or the shop.