Chapter I · INDIA'S UNREST
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India has been called the land of quiet repose, content to remain anchored to the hoary past, and proud of her immobility. Invasion after invasion has swept over her; but—
"The East bowed low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again."
Yet this same India is now throbbing with discontent, and is breathing, in all departments of her life, a deep spirit of unrest. This spirit has recently become acute and seemed, for a while, in danger of bursting into open rebellion, not unlike the Mutiny of half a century ago.