MANINDRA CHANDRA NANDY OF KASIMBAZAR. D.E. WACHA. BHUPENDRANATH BASU. BISHAN DUTT SHUKUL. MADAN MOHAN MALAVIYA. K. V. RANGASWAMIENGAR. MAZHARUL HAQUE. V. S. SRINIVASAN. TEJ BAHADUR SAPRU. IBRAHIM RAHIMTOOLA. B. NARASIMHESWARA SARMA. MIR ASAD ALI. KAMINI KUMAR CHANDA. KRISHNA SAHAY. R. N. BHANJA DEO OF KANIKA. M. B. DADABHOY. SITA NATH ROY. MOHAMED ALI MOHAMED. M. A. JINNAH.
It might be noted that the demands are extremely moderate and accompanied by rather exaggerated acknowledgments of the effects of British rule in India. They proceed from a body of professed loyalists. They have received wide support from representative organisations of Hindus and Mahommedans as well as from representative men of all classes, castes and denominations.
_India in England._ In England the exigencies of the war have left no time for the British Parliament to devote to the meagre discussions of Indian affairs that followed the presentation of East India accounts once a year. The requirements of the law in this respect have been conveniently ignored. In the press too, while every expression of loyalty is lauded to the skies and even cabled to America, the demands for rights and reforms are silently ignored or hooted with contempt. The reactionary Lord Sydenham has, however, sounded a note of alarm urging the “immediate and final” rejection of the demands made by the nineteen members of the Viceroy’s Legislative Council. The London _Nation_ and the _New Statesman_ have come out with sympathetic articles.
_India in America._ Here in the United States of America the attention paid to Indian affairs by the American press, has elicited long statements by British statesmen in connection with their rule in India. The Secretary of State for India, the Under Secretary of State for India, the Viceroy, the Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab, the Finance Minister have all granted interviews to American correspondents, assuring the latter of the marvellous progress India is making under British rule, of the prosperity and loyalty of India and of the extreme unimportance of the Nationalist party. Judged from these interviews India must be a very paradise on earth--a garden of Eden. Most of the statements are vague and misleading, containing half truths and suppressing important facts. I will pick up one statement for purposes of illustration. The Finance Minister of India is reported to have said: