There are some who hold that the British Empire has made its last if most glorious effort in the Great War, and that in it Western civilisation proclaimed itself bankrupt and committed suicide. That cannot be. The cause for which the British people fought and made such appalling sacrifices was not unworthy of them or of our civilisation. Heavy clouds hang over the future and obscure the paths of the nations. But in India, where East and West meet as nowhere else, Britain has lighted a beacon which, if she keep it burning, will show to both the way of escape from a more disastrous conflict than that from which the West has just emerged battered and bleeding--a conflict not between nations but between races.
Age of Consent Bill, 1891, 95-6, 113, 236
_Ahimsa_, doctrine of, 170, 175, 188, 192, 298
Ahmedabad, 50, 53-5; outbreak in, 176-7, 273
Alexander the Great's invasion, 27, 28, 33
Ali brothers, the, Mahomed and Shaukat, 140, 188-9, 191, 197, 288, 291, 297 _n_.
Aligurh, Mahomedan College at, 135-6, 197
All-India Moslem League, 136, 138, 145, 147, 173
Amritsar: outbreak, 175-6, 183; Jallianwala Bagh, 177-9, 211; British Government's despatch, 180-82; Duke of Connaught on, 228, 303; Resolutions on, 209, 228-30, 302
Aryan races, 15, 22, 31, 35; social system, 22-3, 42-3, 217, 219
Asiatics' Trading and Land Act (South Africa), 281
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H.H., on a "new angle of vision," 141, 300
Banerjee, Sir Surendranath, 118, 204, 207
Bengal Presidency, 69, 71, 72, 114 elections in, 202-4 "Non-co-operation" fails in, 203-4, 208 Partition of, _see_ Partition permanent settlement in, 199-200
Bengalees: unrest among, 12, 114-115, 203 Western education and, 8, 205-7
Bombay, 6 city improvement, 271 cotton mills, 270, 271 labour troubles, 270, 273-4
Bombay Presidency, 69, 71 elections in, 194-6
Boycott movements, 4, 113, 294. See _Swadeshi_
Brahmans: Akbar and, 60 supremacy of, 17-18, 23, 27, 37-8, 41, 44, 45, 84, 190, 219-220, 221-4; Buddhism and, 27; Gandhi and, 190 temple, 11
British, arrival of, in India, 3-4, 5, 62, 66-7, 220
British administration, share of Indians in, 12-13, 97, 101-10, 132-5, 163-4
British Empire, India's partnership in, its implications, 164, 306-10
British rule: co-operation the principle of, 12-13, 66-8, 74, 204-8, 300-301 education and, 79-82, 299-300 evolution of, 66-83. _See_ Crown sovereignty, East India Company, Parliamentary control Gandhi and, 191 goal of, 12-13, 76-7, 79, 149, 162-4, 301-2