INDIA UNDER RIPON INDIA UNDER RIPON A PRIVATE DIARY BY WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT CONTINUED FROM HIS “SECRET HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH OCCUPATION OF EGYPT” T. FISHER UNWIN LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE LEIPSIC: INSELSTRASSE 20 1909 (_All rights reserved._) CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. INTRODUCTORY 1 II. CEYLON 11 III. MADRAS 27 IV. HYDERABAD 57 V. CALCUTTA 85 VI. A MOHAMMEDAN UNIVERSITY 123 VII. PATNA, LUCKNOW 139 VIII. DELHI, RAJPUTANA 161 IX. THE NIZAM’S INSTALLATION 175 X. BOMBAY 208 XI. AN APOLOGY FOR FAILURE 227 XII. THE AGRICULTURAL DANGER 236 XIII. RACE HATRED 255 XIV. THE MOHAMMEDAN QUESTION 278 XV. THE FUTURE OF SELF-GOVERNMENT 299 APPENDICES I. THE MOHAMMEDAN UNIVERSITY 327 II. SIR WILLIAM HUNTER’S LETTER 332 III. MAJOR CLAUDE CLERK’S LETTERS 334 INDEX 337 INDIA UNDER RIPON CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY I ought perhaps to have named this volume “The Awakening of India,” because it describes the condition of Indian things at the time of Lord Ripon’s viceroyalty, which was in truth the awakening hour of the new movement towards liberty in India, the dawn of that day of unrest which is the necessary prelude to full self-assertion in every subject land. The journey it records was made under circumstances of exceptional interest at an exceptional moment, and should be instructive in view of what has happened since. It contains a foreshadowing of events which are under our eyes to-day, and suggests a solution of problems which, after long waiting and with a timid courage, is gradually being accepted as official.