“The expressed desire of the Imperialist is to let darkness flourish in order that he may personally benefit by it....  Empire and Imperialism mean the triumph of retrograde notions and the infliction of insult and suffering on three hundred millions of human beings.”  It is this Imperial policy which has led to the most gross injustice being inflicted on every class of the community in India.  As regards the civil services, “the policy of fat pay, ease, perquisites, and praise are the share of the European officers, and hard work and blame that of the Indian rank and file.”  It is the same in the army.  “In frontier wars the Indian troops have had to bear the brunt of the fighting, the European portion being ‘held in reserve’ and coming up at the end to receive all the glory of victory and the consequent rewards.”  It is sometimes said that the masses in India trust Englishmen more than their own countrymen.  That this statement is erroneous is clearly proved by “the absence of interest of the rulers themselves in the moral and material advancement of the poorer classes.”  Not content with uttering this prodigious falsehood, Mr. Mallik adds a further and fouler calumny.  He alludes to the rudeness at times displayed by Englishmen towards the natives of India—­a feature in Indian social life which every right-thinking Englishman will be prepared to condemn as strongly as Mr. Mallik.  But, not content with indicating the evil, Mr. Mallik alleges that any special act of insolence perpetrated by an Indian official meets with the warm approval of the Government.  Promotion, he says, is “usual in such cases.”  Again, Mr. Mallik’s dislike and distrust of Moslems crops up whenever he alludes to them.  Nevertheless, he does not hesitate to denounce that Government whose presence alone prevents an outbreak of sectarian strife for “sedulously fomenting” religious animosities with a view to arresting the Nationalist movement.  Similarly, the constitution of the Universities has been changed with a view to rendering the youth of India “stupid and servile” instead of “clever and patriotic.”

Moreover, whilst India, under the sway of Imperialism, is “drifting to its doom,” Mr. Mallik seems to fear that a somewhat similar fate awaits England.  He observes many symptoms of decay to which, for the most part, Englishmen are blind.  He greatly fears that “the liberties of the people are not safe when the Tory Party continues in power for a long period.”  Neither is the prospect of Liberal ascendancy much less gloomy.  Liberals are becoming “Easternised.”  They are getting “more and more leavened by reaction imported from India.”  It really looks as if “English Liberalism might soon sink to a pious tradition.”  In the meanwhile, Mr. Mallik, with true Eastern proclivities, warmly admires that portion of the English system which Englishmen generally tolerate as a necessary evil, but of which they are by no means proud.  Most thinking men in this country resent the idea of Indian interests