PROBLEM OF INDIA

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 7

PROBLEM OF INDIA

RELIGIOUS HATRED GROWN; ADA!INIBIR ATIYE SYSTEM. : AUCKLAND; July 25.; “Britain has reached tile end of -i 10 yeriis’ unsuccessful ' experinieni with a • for India and l: still • va Inly striving to find a system to put ;itl its ■:plttdbjsaid Mr, S> N. Ziniaft la ,former Rhodes-.scholar’ and. member;, of theTfMlflm' Civil ’•' Service in a lecture at Aticklahhi It had eC far beeii ; ilnpossible - to; 'recbiipile "1 tin opposing interests bf Hiiidu and Mo hanimednii, tVlidsh niuluitl enmity bat grown :*tf fehgth' since the inWcdueiioh Xhf .self»gov<9}j:nieiit unde 11 , strict British , control ■ the yen: 'after the Great War.' Whereas under,Complete British- rui< the two races; hh'dhJH'dd in contempt of' eucl}: tifbeV;.ithe possibility of political ; persecution,, the one b the other,'; whiefi ; even partial sell government' 'lentailpd, had; • intensified racial hatred to a'n; astonishing ex ten't. The fact" that the populatior contained both Hindus and Moslem.* in varying proportions throughout tin country made the/problem even mor

acute, j \ ,-v “Religion plays a more importin’ part iii administration in the Eas than most people ; realise,’’ ‘ said M Zittiftii., / “It -governs an Indian' every action from the time he gets u" until -fee goes to bed; one .can tell . man’s Religion from ■ the clothes h> wears,’’ .' - ( The adihinistfative reforms of 191: and their beaiihg on the present stat of affairs wfefh traced by the lecturer At the end of a 10 years’ trial pf th system, the ’Sihibn Commission was ar pointed to investigate tji'e position an< formulate plans fdf the future. “Bu the failure in the commission was' i tactical error of the flist magnitude,’ continued Mr Ziman. “Although In dian were formed to con f:r with the commission, the initla blunder was never overcome. A] though §ii ,: John Simon’s report wn: presented two years ago, the formej system still remains. ‘ The Round Table Conference, hold subsequently proved abortive. The time h«= now arrived for a' new.: system extendinf the powers granted to the Indian under the present administration. “The cue man who might have solved the' problem is Mahatma Candhi. but ho liT.'.v been one of the greates disappointments in the ndmini-trntio of India,” Mr Ziman added. “Re vered as a religious loader by millions he has brought only s'tupidty to hi* politics. ”