throughout the Empire to rise to so great an opportunity, would react far beyond the confines of India. The tide of racial hatred which may yet be stemmed would rise and perhaps not only undermine the present fabric of our Empire, but strew East and West with the wreckage of disappointed hopes and embittered animosities. 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. INDEX Abyssinian victory over Italians, 112 Acworth, Sir William, 260 Adawa, battle of, 112 Afghan invasions, 3, 61-2 Aga Khan, the, 136, 282 Age of Consent Bill, 1891, 95-6, 113, 236 Agra and Oudh, _see_ United Provinces Agrarian questions, Indian, 197-201 _Ahimsa_, doctrine of, 170, 175, 188, 192, 298 Ahmed Shah Durani, 61 Ahmed Shahi dynasty, 53, 54 Ahmedabad, 50, 53-5; outbreak in, 176-7, 273 Ahmednagar, 50 Ajatasatni, King, 28 Akbar, Emperor, 3, 5, 51, 53, 56, 57-61 Ala-ud-Din Khilji, 48 Alai Darwazah, the, 48 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 Allahabad outbreak, 177 All-India Moslem League, 136, 138, 145, 147, 173 All-India Trades Congress, 272 Altamsh, 36, 47 Americans in Tata Company, 248, 253 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 Annexation policy of Dalhousie, 81 Arya Somaj, 95 Aryan races, 15, 22, 31, 35; social system, 22-3, 42-3, 217, 219 Asiatics' Trading and Land Act (South Africa), 281 Asoka, King, 2, 27, 29-32, 35 Asquith, Rt. Hon. H.H., on a "new angle of vision," 141, 300 _Asvamedha_, the, 2, 4, 32, 37, 40 Aurungzeb, Emperor, 61 Australia and Asiatics, 282 Baber, Emperor, 3, 56 Baghavat-Ghita, the, 35, 113 _Bakar-Id_ festival, 288 Bana, the Brahman, 39 "_Bande Materam_," 115 Banerjee, Sir Surendranath, 118, 204, 207 Basu, Mr. Bupendranath, 145 Baz Bahadur, 53 Behar and Orissa, 8, 129 Benares University, Gandhi and, 197 Bendusara, King, 29 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