PROBLEMS BEFORE INDIA
The “Christian Science Monitor,” which is giving much space to* the problem of India, summarises as follow the “complications that must be resolved by the Round-Table Conference on India, now assembled in London:”
India is not a nation, but a collection of diverse races and creeds, among which team work is not easily maintained.
India’s educated community is comparatively small in numbers. Only 2,500,000 people, out of 32,000,000, speak English—the language of Indian nationalism.
Only 23,000,000 can read and write one or other of the 222 Oriental languages in daily use. The educated minority makes up for lack of numbers in the persistence of its demand for self-Govemment. Mohammedans (70,000,000), the dominant factor when Britain took over India, reject any proposal for transferring national power to the Hindu majority. Hundreds of semi-independent States, ruled by princes, are determined to regard Britain, and not a self-governing India, as the suzerain power.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1931, Page 2
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153PROBLEMS BEFORE INDIA Hokitika Guardian, 8 January 1931, Page 2
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