Note 23 — Chapter III · Population—Costumes—Usages—Festivals

Mr. Karaka ends his long and eloquent appeal with a sentence which sounds the true keynote of the regret felt by the Parsis at being merely compared with the natives when they felt themselves to be morally and intellectually their superiors. Why are they not provided with commissions in the army like the Germans and other Europeans?23 Then only will they feel completely identified with the British nation.24