Produced by Million Book Project, Juliet Sutherland, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net INDIAN UNREST By VALENTINE CHIROL A Reprint, revised and enlarged, from "The Times," with an introduction by Sir Alfred Lyall _We have now, as it were, before us, in that vast congeries of peoples we call India, a long, slow march in uneven stages through all the centuries from the fifth to the twentieth._ --VISCOUNT MORLEY. MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1910 DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO VISCOUNT MORLEY AS A TRIBUTE OF PRIVATE FRIENDSHIP AND PUBLIC RESPECT CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION. BY SIR ALFRED C. LYALL VII I. A GENERAL SURVEY 1 II. SWARAJ ON THE PLATFORM AND IN THE PRESS 8 III. A HINDU REVIVAL 24 IV. BRAHMANISM AND DISAFFECTION IN THE DECCAN 37 V. POONA AND KOLHAPUR 64 VI. BENGAL BEFORE THE PARTITION 72 VII. THE STORM IN BENGAL 81 VIII. THE PUNJAB AND THE ARYA SAMAJ 106 IX. THE POSITION OF THE MAHOMEDANS 118 X. SOUTHERN INDIA 136 XI. REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS OUTSIDE INDIA 145 XII. THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 154 XIII. CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS 162 XIV. THE DEPRESSED CASTES 176 XV. THE NATIVE STATES 185 XVI. CROSS CURRENTS 198 XVII. THE GROWTH OF WESTERN EDUCATION 207 XVIII. THE INDIAN STUDENT 216 XIX. SOME MEASURES OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM 229 XX. THE QUESTION OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 238 XXI. PRIMARY EDUCATION 246 XXII. SWADESHI AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS 254 XXIII. THE FINANCIAL AND FISCAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIA AND GREAT BRITAIN 271 XXIV. THE POSITION OF INDIANS IN THE EMPIRE 280 XXV. SOCIAL AND OFFICIAL RELATIONS 288 XXVI. THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 306 XXVII. CONCLUSIONS 319 NOTES 335 INDEX 361 _The numerals above the line in the body of the book refer to notes at the end of the volume._ INTRODUCTION. BY SIR ALFRED C. LYALL.