Illiteracy the Fault of the British and no Bar to Self-government 237 Internal Troubles 238 Unfitness of Orientals for Representative Institutions 238 Nationalism Has Come to Stay 238 Curzons, Macdonnels, Sydenhams, Responsible for Bombs and Revolvers 240 A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS IN ENGLISH 241 APPENDICES Feudatory Chiefs Powerless 243 Gross Insults to Indians 243 Industrial Ruin of India; Gokhale 244 India a Mere Possession; Gokhale 244 Masses Starved; Sir C. A. Elliot, Sir W. W. Hunter, William Digby 244 Seventy Million Continually Hungry People in British India; William Digby 245 Total Area under Cultivation 245 Famines of Money; not Food; Lord George Hamilton 245 Causes of Famines 246 Drain; Montgomery Martin and Digby 246 Enormous Foreign Tribute; Rev. J. T. Sunderland 246 Government Assessment too High; Sir W. Hunter 246 The Ryot; Herbert Compton 246 Indian Plunder; Adam Brooks 247 Swami Abhedananda 247 Alfred Webb 247 “Narrow and Shortsighted Imperial Policy;” Sir A. R. Colquehoun 248 Taxation; Lord Salisbury 248 Plague, Deaths from 249 Death Rate 249 Indian Finance 249 Land Tax 249 Income Tax 250 Customs 250 Trade Figures for 1913 to 1914 251 Personnel of the Government 251 Figures About Education and Literacy 253 The Flogging of Political Prisoners 253 ILLUSTRATIONS Dadabhai Naoroji _Frontispiece_ Ram Mohan Roy FACING PAGE 111 Swami Vivekananda “ “ 115 Bal Ganga Dhar Tilak “ “ 162 Arabinda Ghosh “ “ 172