GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

Tint Asiatic Quarterly Review contains a somewhat remarkable article on the social intercourse between the ruled and the riders in India, by Ragoonath Row, the Prime Minister of Indore, in which lie points out some of the faults of the Europeans in their conduct towards the Hindus, and reminds the former tint political and social intercourse will not suffice to bind the two races together there must be religions intercourse, and this can only bo brought about by the exercise of mutual tederaation. He seemed to think that the administration of justice was better, and the general demeanor of the governing classes more conciliatory before the Mutiny than they have, been since. Formerly, he says, “the Hindu fought, counselled, and obtained country after country for the British, looking upon them as God-sent angels of protection from Dacoits, like those of Burmah now. It is a fallacy, he adds, “to suppose that India is a conquered country. It is a country acquired by the British with the aid, the good feeling, and the blood of the natives.” And he concludes by urging both upon the former and the latter such a line of conduct as will be conductive to their future peace and harmony. “ Sympathies,” he writes, “should be demonstrated by sharing in the griefs and joys of each other. Such conduct will surely secure to all the fellow subjects of one sovereign, and the children of one father, common happiness, without which no country however governed, can bo a strength to the governors and the governed.” In an article on the Public Service of India Sir Lcpel Griffin advocates the imposition of some restraint upon the license of the native Press, and recommends that the Government should resume the powers it has lately resigned, and establish a Native Civil Service, with competitions between carefully nominated aud selected candidates.” And, he adds, “ I would insist on a compulsory athletic test in horsemanship and the use of arms. The migistrate who cannot ride twenty miles across country to inquire into a murder, or who would he afraid to shoot dead witn his revolver the leader of a riot, may' well be left to the counting-house or the shop.”