Note 488 — BOOK VIII THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS (continued 6)

All intelligent Englishmen or Englishwomen with a vote owe it to the Empire and themselves to read at least one book dealing with India or Egypt from the native point of view. For India, Lajpat Rai’s Political Future of India is to be recommended. A compact book running counter to the views in this text, and giving the Church missionary point of view, is the Rev. W. E. S. Holland’s Goal of India. William Archer’s India and the Future is an interesting display of the temperamental clash of a Nordic writer with things Dravidian. It sustains the argument that even the most high-minded Nordic type cannot be trusted to govern other races sympathetically. (See also in that matter Archer’s In Afro-America.) The Aga Khan’s India in Transition gives very admirably the views of a liberal Indian gentleman. Sidney Low’s A Vision of India is still not yet superseded as a picture of India in 1905-6, when the present stir was only brewing.