in Anglo-Indian Clubs and Anglo-Indian society. It would be too much to expect them to rise above their Anglo-Indian environments. There is, however, one thing they can and ought to do. They should publish letters from Native gentlemen more readily than åt present. I am constrained to observe with regret that such letters are withheld by some of the Anglo-Indian journals, when the views expressed in them run counter to theirs. It is a most reprehensible thing to conduct journals in India on racial lines. The officials who compose the Government read Anglo-Indian journals, and naturally they would weigh the contents of such letters, if published. The Anglo-Indian press, on account of its unique position, can exercise a highly beneficent influence on the topics of the day, if it but shows more broad-mindedness, largeness of heart and keenness of vision.

Rudeness towards Natives.

. Now I go to the second of the causes of discontent, viz., the contempt and rudeness shown by AngloIndians as a class towards Indians. The proverbial insular pride of Englishmen is one thing and the bumptious insolence of the Anglo-Indians as a community is another thing. I have noticed with sorrow the insulting and insolent attitude of some AngloIndians towards Indians. It is not an uncommon thing to hear the Anglo-Indians call the Natives 'niggers.' The epithet is resented not because it implies a blackness of skin. To an Indian mind there is no merit in being white, or humiliation in being black. A coal-black African is as good a man as a snow-white Englishman. Both are creatures of the same God. Surely the Indians show a true Christian spirit on this point. But the epithet is resented by them, because it is used in derision and to convey inferiority and servitude.

Take another instance. Who is not aware of the unseemly collisions and tussels between Anglo-Indians and Indians in firstclass carriages and on platforms of railways? Firstclass Indian passengers are, as a

rule, men of education and refinement, and it is irritating to them to be prevented by Anglo-Indians to step into carriages or to be disturbed by them when once in. Very often there is an exchange of angry words and at times of blows. A how-dare-you-come-in look or an angry scowl, which Anglo-Indians manifest on such occasions, are not calculated to promote friendliness between the two races. I must say, in fairness, that some Anglo-Indian passengers are very good, obliging and courteous, and give one the smack of the pleasant days spent by him in England.

It is notorious that Native third class passengers are very often treated most shabbily on the railways in India. They are looked upon as a flock of livestock, although they contribute most to the earnings of the railway companies. If they venture to seek any information from an European or an Eurasian employee they are generally treated by him with the utmost scorn, although the same individual is all politeness and attention when spoken to by an European or an Eurasian for a like purpose.

The fourth illustration is unfortunately of an event of ordinary occurrence. Some Anglo-Indian drivers of vehicles 'sooar' poor Natives and sometimes lash them for not getting out of their way promptly. Is

that a very dire offence? What right have such drivers to ill-treat those poor fellows in that way? They are King's subjects and walk on King's highways, although they are at times a little tiresome on account of their gawky gait.

reason.

One day, I saw outside the railway station at Coorla, close to the Court of the Second Class Magistrate of that place, a European swearing hard at a Native and flourishing a sword-stick at him for a very trivial There was a policeman standing near, but he did not interfere, although he was appealed to. The crowd of people which had gathered murmured 'zoolam,' 'zoolam.' I advised the aggrieved person to complain to a Magistrate and offered to give evidence for him, but he shook his head mournfully and said that British Justice was impotent in the case of a 'sahib.' I tried to disabuse his mind on that point, but to no purpose. That poor man whom I had known is now sleeping the eternal sleep, having been shot by a Pathan since.

The next illustration I would give would be an incident which always causes irritation and heartburning among the educated Indians. It is the slight at times shown to them at public functions or at interviews with Government officials on business.

Sometimes a native gentleman has to wait outside the room of an official for a very long time before he is given an interview. Sometimes he is not offered a chair when he has a right to it by his position and the rules of propriety and etiquette. Sometimes hẻ is spoken to brusquely or sharply. All this is keenly felt. Slight from a servant of the Crown is a bitterer pill to swallow than in the case of a private individual, and the bitterness is intensified by a difference of treatment accorded to an European on a like occasion. Uniformity of rudeness in an officer unmixed by race distinction is perhaps less galling.

I remember a case in which an Anglo-Indian Magistrate in the Mofussil offered a chair to an ordinary Eurasian witness who gave his evidence sitting. There was neither illness nor any other just cause for providing him with a seat. His race secured him the privilege. I am sure such courtesy would not have been shown by that Magistrate to a native higher in position than that Eurasian. I say this because I had appeared before that Magistrate in several cases.

It is common knowledge that very often Government and railway officials do not 'mister' or 'esquire' respectable natives in communications addressed to them, although an European or an Eurasian is always shown that courtesy even if he happens to be a potboy.