“SCOTSMEN AND INDIA.”

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1228, 2 April 1914, Page 4

“SCOTSMEN AND INDIA.”

The Marquis of Crewe. iSoeretary for India, iimugn rated the, winter session ol llin I’hilisophical Institution, Edinburgh . will: an address on "Scotsmen and India." Lord Crewe sketclied in outline (.lie careers of some of the Scotsmen who had served Ibe State in India, and said it was impossible not to ho impressed with the gravity of purpose, the patience and sanity which had generally ruled their lives, and the rare, degree n ; which many won the confidence and love of Indian people. Deferring to the rule of native Princes, Lord Crewo said the Clovermnent still came down with a heavy hand in the rare instances of proved misconduct, and exercised a General supervision over the .‘necession to a deceased prince. Hut it diil not interfere if it could help it, and it had absolutely no desire to add in (he area of British India. Indeed. in this latter respect the tendency had been rather in the opposite direction. Mysore, which was for years directly administered, was now the first in importance of Hindu States under an enlightened Hindu ruler, and quite recently the territory of Benares, including the sacred city, had been trasferred from Hritish governance to the modified control of the descendants of its ancient maharajahs.