The Passing of Empire

First, take the _personnel_, for there is no complaint more insistent on all sides than that the officers of to-day are not the same as those of fifty or more years ago. They ar...

Let us turn now from the _personnel_ of government to its methods, from its men to its laws, from the motive power to the machine it works, or which more often now works governm...

We do not hear so much of the discontent in India now as we did three or four years ago. There are no reports of seditious meetings, incendiary propaganda, or disloyal tendencie...

When the _personnel_ of the Government of India from the bottom to the top has been reorganised on a basis of understanding of the people, it will begin to revise its laws, and...

I have already referred to the archaic state in which, all over India, matters of marriage and inheritance remain; no change has taken place during our rule, nor could do so. Ex...

The next measure which has insistently been pressed on the Government is that far more Indians should be admitted to the Civil Service. It is now composed almost exclusively of...

Therefore there is a wide difference between the men as they came out in the old days and as they come out now. Then they were young, not very well instructed but capable of see...

There is a further difference in their view of crime, between Englishmen as they are made by education and Orientals who in some ways remain the natural man, which greatly affec...

But of all the errors of Indian government, none is so serious as their destruction of the Village organism throughout India; none has had such an effect in the past; none is li...

The first point is the _personnel_ of the Indian Civil Service, which holds all important offices in India, forms the Government, and fills most of the places on the Indian Coun...

I will begin what I have to say about this by telling a little story about what happened to me when I was a Subordinate Magistrate--some sixteen years ago now.

I am aware in the first place that there are some who will object that the Indian peoples are not a whole. "There is no Indian people," they will say. "There are innumerable rac...

Having got the young civilian out to his province he should be thoroughly trained before being put to work, not given six or nine months to look round and then put to do work he...

The first step that has been taken with the hope of allaying the discontent in India has been the increase in the Councils of the Government of India and of the Local Government...

To the success of any form of self-government a good education is absolutely essential; that a people should be able to exercise self-government it is necessary that they be edu...

The Indian Civil Service is the principal service in India; it furnishes men for the executive, the magistracy, and judicature, the revenue administration; and its members const...

But, pending any such great change as must come in all penal law when the subject has been carefully studied, there are many smaller amendments that might be made both in Civil...

And thus the sheltering Government of India having been reformed both in its _personnel_ and in its laws, brought into touch and sympathy with its people, a start would be made...

There are many other subjects connected with the renaissance of India that I should like to enter into, but I cannot do so here. This book is already too full of matter that is...