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The Feast of Moharrem. has passed in British India without any fatal collision In his recent visitation charge to the between Moslem and Hindu, says the churchwardens of his diocese the Bishop Times of September 2nd. For, this relief of Chichester touched. among other thanks are due to the vigilance of the topics, on the slackness of men with re- local and central Governments of India gard to koceling in church, la his visi- and to the silf-sacriäcing activity of the tation articles he had made inquiry of Civil Services, but there are numerous the churchwardens respecting the custom indications that there is no real relaxu- of men in this matter, and in his charge tion of what is described by official he explained that he had done so because phraseology 45 **inter-communal ten men in the Church of England have sion and was known to eur blunter grown so very slack about it. Women, fathers as religious animosity. In the he said, do kneel; men kneel teo at the dominions of the Nizam, the first and altar-rail, and probably at their bed- wealthiest of the Mahoniedan rulers of sides. But the bishop "fears it is the Native States, the feast was followed by exception when men kneel, upon their a serious and prolonged wutburst of knees in the pews. He finds there aro fanaticisa. At Gulbarga, in Hyderabad, three, influences maialy beyond our con more than 40 Hindu temples were intra-which tend to as lamentable re vaded, wrecked, or looted by excited sult. They aro (1) Non-conforminti mobs, the images of the deities were example; (4) the influence of Army and mutilated as destroyed, and it is reported Navy (soldiers on church parade stand that over 300 mortals were injured or lost or sit at the word of, command, and are their lives. Our reference to this riot evidently not expected to kucel); (3) the Three implies no criticism of the Nizam's ad- influence of Sunday, trousers. ministration Incidentally the outbreak hundred years ago George Herbert disposes of the contention of propagand-wrote: Kneeling ne'er spoilt silk stock. ints of Swaraj that relations between the ing. Surely if it did, the bishop says, two faiths aro more amicable in the reverence to God is worth more than the Native States-even where, as in Hytera hang of your clothes. Underneath these had, the majority of the population differ main reasons for the prevailing slackness in creed from their ruler-than they are lies, in the bishop's opinion, a ren! in British India, and that Indian rule failure of reverence for God. He then will therefore guarantee intercommunal went on to speak of those who "Lack the peace; but it has long been realized by faith to see Him who is invisible., Just those who have followed Hindu and Mons people so often go to charch to enjoy lein relations, that such explosions of the music or a sermon, and not really to fanaticism are as possible in any of the worship God and commune with Him; so cities of the feudatory princes as they when they are there they often think lea ire in Agra or Multan. What occurred of reverence than of comfort, less of last month in Hyderabad may occur next honouring God in body and mind as well week in the United Provinces... The pro-as spirit, than of receiving the praise or blem presented by the rival ambitions, escaping the scorn of men." the widely differing cutlook, and the dis- cordant ceremonies of the adherents of

Though those bad influences cannot be

the two faiths affects every part of India controlled churchwardens ought, mid the where there are religious minorities of bishop, to take care not to give men ëx- any numerical importance. "Even in Ben-cuses with which to save their con- gai, where for historical reasons friction sciences. And in many crowded churches was in the past less acute than in the the difficulty of disposing of his hat is Northern and Western Provinces, the last real, and affords the man an excuse which 12 months bave been marked by several he toe readily snatches at. It was worse, religious riots, and the pact made by Mr. of course, when men wore tall hats. But CR. Das himself with his political even with smaller hats and soft hats the allies, the Moslem. Swarajist or Cali- difficulty remains. The bishop said he phatist Party, has been denounced hy rejoices when he sees or hears of pegs in important lenders of Hinda opinion and the porch or lobby, or of any other received with impolite scepticism by the device to relieve the situation and de- more conservative Moslems. The Hindu prive the irreverent of their excUBE. leaders of the groups which compose the hairs in a church look very well, bat Congress Party have entirely failed to many of them provides places for hats prevent riots and to calm the animosities which are worse than useless, mere traps which make them possible. They have and, moreover, cramp your legs sp that, apart from the bat question. you can had no assistance from such Moslem sup hardy kneel. The fact is that the nume porters as Mr. Mohamed Ali, whose tact-

rous legs of the chairs take up so much lessness leads him to affront Hindu sus- ceptibilities in speech after speech. The pace, there is very little left either for Moderates, temporarily in the background fert or hats, and you can't get both in. owing to their political reverses, have Benches, though less comely, are far more suitable than chairs, unicas adequate pro been no more successful

vision is made somewhere else than under the chair. The bishop added that when the church is crowded churchwardens should take care to give the front row something to kneef up against, or the temptation to squat will be too much for them.

GANDHI'S ALLIANCE ENDED.

Finally he said: If you can't gat space to kneel, or if the perils to hat or trousers deter you, would it not bỡ” more manly to stand than to cramp and pretend, standing is quite a fitting at tributed for prayer."

It is clear that the Hindu-Moslemn Alliance which was formed by Me Gandhi is at an end. The ironic spirits pictured by the author of The Dynasts might, well have presided over u mon- strous birth, its-brief .and voilent life, and its unedifying death.. Formed by an apostle of non-violence and universal brotherhood on a basis of hatred of the British Administration in India, rein forced in the case of its Moslem adherents by the belief inspired by lying agitators that the British Government was about to destroy the Turkish Caliphate of Islam,

DIAMOND DIGGERS' LUCK, it died when the "God-learing Turks" of Gandhi's discourses, Jeft at last

Astonishing stories of newcomers' Juck to themselves, repudiated the Turkish

in the diamond diggings are reported Caliphate and expeiled the Caliph with from Stompies, South Africa, where ther every circumstance of inault and cea are more than 10,000 people, including tumely. But the breakdown of an blacks, with hundrels more streaming in alliance which was less generally support from all sides every week. A Free State ed than its supporters averred did not farmer landed at Stompira to try his luck merely restore the status quo aute in

but the only claim he could secure was Hindu-Mahomedan, relations. There is a bit of waste ground, that no cne else good reason to believe that these reis would have. He set to work, and pre- tions are now more strained than in presently found several diamonds, among Reform days, for reasons which should be them a 144 enrat stone. He sold the lot better understood in this country. One for £895, and went home. Another man is the transformation of Hinduism from had even better luck, and when he sold & passive creed condemned to perpetual the diamonds for more than 2000 he be defensive, which could only be acquired came almost hysterical. Enteric is 'said by communities (never hy individuala), to be rife, and the living and food con After generations of preparation, inte aditions in many instances, deplorable- nationalist proselytizing faith. The Whole families are stowed away in mis- change, it is true, affects only certain cellaneous, vehicles with mcking for Hindu sects, notably the Arya Samaj, roofing. All are living on the bare veldt whose remarkable leader, Swami Shrad with the nearest town 24 miles away: dhanand, has reconverted large numbers Even drinking water must be bought. of Musulmaan Rajputs in the United Pro These people, moreover, continually more vinces to a modernized edition of their about from claim to claim or make new ancestral faith. But the ideal of Hindu rushes. ism as a world religion into which in- dividual converts can enter has received the blessing of so authoritative un expon- ent of Brahmanical Orthodoxy as Pandit Montage-Chelmsford Report could not Madan Mohun Malaviya. It has aroused résist the opportunity of delivering the fears of many Moslem divines, jeal-lengthy lecture on the defects of this ous of Hindu encroachments on their method of representation, the Swarjists mission fields or horrified by apostasy, themselves catered into a patt with the which their Sacred Law punishes with Moslems to accept it. The evidence given death. Compelled by the British tradi- before the Reforma Committee now sit tion of tolerance to favour no particularting at Simia has been marked by the creed, the Government of India cannot hostility of Hindus representing many check the missionary activities of Aryas different shades of political opipion to or of Moslems, however bitter the feelings the principle of communal representa that they may arouse, provided that they tion, which some of them even seem to bave suggested was one of the causes of conform to the laws of the land.

the alleged failure of dyarchy. This has TO COMMUNAL · REPRESENTATION, DA

excited Moslem apprehensions that the But there is another cause of Moslem next instalment of constitutional reforms anxiety which may be better understood in India may comprise the abolition of at. Deļbi, than at Whitehall. However this method of minority representation, repugnant it may be to Radical doctrin- and Moslem spokesmen have warned the aires, however strong the theoretical Government that any such change would objections, there are cogent practical produce widespread disorders. It is the arguments in favour of the maintenance declared policy of the British Government of the present system of communal "re to further the progress of India towards presentation in India. Under this sys-responsible self-government; but such tem special constituencies have been progress would be fatally compromised by created for communities which might be the outbreak of something like civil war, outvoted and rendered incapable of which would assuredly follow any prema making their voices heard in constituenture attempt to alter a system under cies hased solely on territorial representa- which not only Moslems, but the vigor- tion. This concession was granted to the ous and militant Sikh and Maratha com- Moslems, who are in a minority in most munities, enjoy a representation commen- of the Indian Provinces, by the Indian surate with their historical and political Councils Act of 1909. It was reafirmed importance. Meanwhile new suspicions

in the Act of 1919, and was extended to added to old jealousies will not make the other minorities, such as the Sikhs of the task of the British and Indian members Punjab; and though the authors of the of the Civil Services any the lean

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