THUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
THE INDIAN ISSUE. ’ _ s When wo come to consider the claims put forward by Sapru, Moonjee and Jayahar, and their insistent demands for immediate action, we may well doubt if they really speak for India. These men are the product of Western culture and civilisation grafted iqion Orientalism, and it is only by virtue of their European training that they have come to realise the meaning of those democratic conceptions and ideals which are still for the most part wholly unintelligible to the vast majority of the countless millions in “the immemorial East.” For unnumbered ages the masses in India lived virtually as the bond-elaves of their lords. The ideas of democratic freedom and constitutional government never occurred to them spontaneously, and are still largely alien from their view of life. —Exchange.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1930, Page 4
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136THUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1930, Page 4
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