The most dangerous organization outside India was unquestionably that which had its headquarters at the “India House” at Highgate.  It was there that Dinghra appears to have concocted the plot which resulted in the murder of Sir W. Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Lalcaca, and though the London correspondent of the Kal, Vinayak Savarkar, who was arrested this year in London to take his trial on the gravest charges at Bombay, magnified the success of the plot by describing its chief victim as “the eyes of the Secretary of State through which he saw all Indian affairs,” there is some reason to believe that Dinghra expected to find at the reception another Anglo-Indian official whom the “extremists” were particularly anxious to “remove,” and only in his absence struck at Sir W. Curzon Wyllie.  There is reason, too, to believe that it was from this “India House” also that came both the idea of murdering Mr. Jackson and the weapons used by the murderer.  Though students from all parts of India were enticed into the “India House,” the organization seems to have been controlled by Deccan Brahmans, and in the first instance by Shyamji Krishnavarma, who founded scholarships in connexion with it to honour the Indian “martyrs” executed for murderous outrages in India.  When the authorities in London very tardily awoke after the murder of Sir W. Curzon Wyllie to the dangerous nature of this organization, to which The Times first drew attention in the spring of 1908, it was still controlled from the Continent by Krishnavarma, who had retreated to Paris long before, leaving his lieutenants to carry on his campaign amongst the young Indian students.  The Indian Sociologist itself continued to be openly published in London and to advocate assassination until the tragedy at the Imperial Institute led the authorities to take woefully-belated action in prosecuting successively two printers of the sheet, which was then transferred to Paris.

That altogether considerable quantities of incendiary literature have been produced abroad and imported into India through these various organizations is beyond doubt.  Sometimes books like Savarkar’s “War of Indian Independence of 1857”—­in its way a very remarkable history of the Mutiny, combining considerable research with the grossest perversions of facts and great literary power with the most savage hatred—­were bound in false covers as “Pickwick Papers,” or other equally innocuous works.  Other seditious leaflets besides those for the incitement of mutiny in the native army appear to have come from America, whilst newspapers like the Talvar and the Bande Mataram, which preach the same gospel of murder as Krishnavarrna’s Indian Sociologist, are printed on the Continent of Europe.  These papers are either smuggled into India in large parcels or sent through the post in envelopes addressed by name to students in schools and colleges, as well as to schoolmasters, pleaders, Government employes—­in fact, to all sorts and conditions of people who, for some reason or other, are supposed to be suitable recipients.  They naturally fall sometimes into quite the wrong hands.