Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ THE NEW SPIRIT IN INDIA BY THE SAME AUTHOR NEIGHBOURS OF OURS: Scenes of East End Life. (Arrowsmith.) IN THE VALLEY OF TOPHET: Scenes of Black Country Life. (Dent.) THE THIRTY DAYS’ WAR: Scenes in the War between Greece and Turkey. (Dent.) CLASSIC GREEK LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE: Pictures by John Fulleylove. (Dent.) LADYSMITH: a Diary of the Siege. (Methuen.) THE PLEA OF PAN. (Murray.) BETWEEN THE ACTS: Scenes in the Author’s Experience. (Murray.) ON THE OLD ROAD THROUGH FRANCE TO FLORENCE (French chapters): Pictures by Mr. Hallam Murray. (Murray.) BOOKS AND PERSONALITIES: Literary Essays. (John Lane.) A MODERN SLAVERY: An account of the Slave Trade in the Portuguese Colony of Angola and the Cocoa Islands of San Thomé and Principe. (Harper.) THE DAWN IN RUSSIA: Scenes in the Revolution of 1905-6. (Harper.) THE REVOLT IN THE CAUCASUS: Scenes in the Rebellion, 1906-7. (Harper’s Monthly, 1908.) [Illustration: CONTEMPLATION. (Statue of a SANYASI, by G. M. MHATTRE of Bombay.) _Frontispiece._] ] THE NEW SPIRIT IN INDIA BY HENRY W. NEVINSON [Illustration: Decoration] ILLUSTRATED LONDON AND NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS 45 ALBEMARLE STREET W. 1908 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PAGE Summary of recent events—Lord Curzon appointed Viceroy, 1898—The currency—Calcutta Municipality—Famine of 1900—Punjab Land Alienation Act—Commission on Expenditure—Lord Kitchener as Commander-in-Chief—Delhi Durbar—Reduction of Salt Tax—Official Secrets Act—Universities Act—Alleged exclusion of Indians from office—National Congress in Bombay, 1904—Lord Curzon’s Convocation Speech—Partition of Bengal, October 16, 1905—Swadeshi movement—Lord Curzon’s resignation—Lord Minto appointed Viceroy—Mr. John Morley appointed Secretary of State for India—Trouble in Eastern Bengal—Sir Bampfylde Fuller resigns—“Coronation” of Mr. Banerjea—Disturbances in Eastern Bengal and the Punjab—Prosecution of Indian papers—Riot at Rawal Pindi—Arrest of six lawyers—Deportation of Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh—Public Meetings Ordinance—The Risley Circular—Appointment of two Indians to Indian Council—Proposed scheme of Reforms—Opium Agreement with China—Anglo-Russian Agreement—Seditious Meetings Act—Mr. Morley’s speech at Arbroath—Cases of supposed failure of justice—Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji retires to India 1 CHAPTER I A SERVANT OF INDIA Festival of Diwali at Poona—The plague—Mr. Gokhale’s Society of “Servants of India”—His past history—Member of the Viceroy’s Legislative Council—Rules of the Society—Social and political aims—The British connection—Indians and Anglo-Indians—Criticism of proposed reforms—Mr. Gokhale’s suggestions—A Society dinner 31