BREAKING DOWN CASTE
INDIANS OF ALL CREEDS FOKM AN EDUCATIONAL HOSTEL. Pnrsees, Brahmins, Mahonimedans, Hindoos were busy breaking down easto in living, and eating, and drinking together in a storm-battered hotel on tho Ilkley moors of West Yorkshire recently. It was the. beginning of a movement, for drawing together the Indian residents in Great Britain for social and educational purposes. From every part of tho Continent there were gathered. There were natives of Madras, Mysore, the United Provinces, Oudh, the Punjab, Bengal, Bombay, Hyderabad, Delhi, Ceylon, and tho Straits Settlement.?. Many of the guests were students of English Universities. In the ordinary way there were about seventeen hundred University students, but war conditions the present numbers to twelve hundred. The conference, in "drawing up the constitution of a new national association, agreed that its membership should 1* open to all Indians. Its object is to foster a. spirit of solidarity nnd appreciation of Indian
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 7
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154BREAKING DOWN CASTE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 7
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