Arjuna.  The independent Indian Princes conduct their administration exactly on the lines indicated in the Mahabharata, and even States as enlightened as Baroda and Kolhapur still adhere to the Council of eight Ministers recommended in that immortal work.  Indeed, its teachings really explain the puzzle of Indian loyalty to the British Government.  According to Western ideas, no amount of pax Britannica would compensate the conquered for foreign rule.  The Poles still sigh for the bad old days of independence and misrule, and are in no way comforted by the efficiency of German administration.  But the Indian’s allegiance to his native kings was, as the Mahabharata, lays down, released by their weakness, and he readily transferred his loyalty to those who, although foreign, had yet shown that they could govern vigorously.

INDEX

   Acts of Parliament: 
     Age of Consent Act (1891),42, 75. 
     Charter Act (1833), 307, 308, 310. 
     Explosive Substances Act (1908), 98. 
     Government of India Act (1858), 307, 310. 
     Indian Councils Act (1909), 10, 100, 120, 162-175. 
     Indian Newspapers (Incitement
     to Offences) Act, (1908), 96, 98. 
     Press Act (1910), 15, 98-99,335-337. 
     Punjab Land Alienation Act (1900), 156. 
     Summary Justice Act (1908), 98. 
     Universities Act (1904), 78,2, 229.

   Administration of British India,
     comparison of the total
     number of Englishmen and
     Indians employed in, 293.

   Aga Khan, 132, 133.

   Age of Consent Act, 1891,42, 75.

   Agriculture, the greatest of
     all Indian industries, 259;
     need for practical education in, 262.

   Ahmad, Sir Syed, 122, 131.

   Aitchison, Sir Charles, 213.

   Ajit Singh, proceedings against, 112.

   Akash, newspaper, Delhi, 21.

   Ali, Mr. Ameer, 132.

   All-India Moslem League, 131,132, 281.

   All-India Temperance Conference, 200.

   America, Indian revolutionary
      organizations in, 146, 147.

   Anglo-Russian Agreement, 319.

   “Animists,” 177.

   Anti Cow-killing Society, founded by Tilak in 1893, 43.

   Anusilan Samiti Society, 99.

   Army, Indian, position of Indians in, 328.

   Arya Samaj, 27; founded by Swami Dayanand, 109; work
     of, 110-112; seditious activity of its members, 112-114;
     its scheme for restoring the Vedic system of education, 114;
     Sir Louis Dane on, 115;
     a powerful proselytizing agency, 116;
     propaganda in the Native Army, 117;
     hostile to Islam as to British rule, 117.

   Asiatic Quarterly Review cited, 265.

   Atkinson, Mr. (Madras), on ryotwari landlords, 260.