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Things You Should About

Know

About the land of almost 400

million people, the land of wealth and appalling poverty, about colleges that breed misery, about films which “in five years will smash the Hindu and Moslem Cultures.”

By Edward Thompson

W

Congress?

India

HAT is the All. is as large as France and its Nizam has full internal sover- India National eignty. Some States (there are about 500 in all) consist of only and have a few square miles trivial powers.

The general settlement of An unofficial body. Pay- Indin was in 1819. The Peshwa ment of four annas (six went (the Emperor was already nominal ruler); the pence) constitutes member- only a ship. Its annual conference Rajput Princes were rescued from extreme helplessness: a Hongkong Telegraph. is in the Christmas holidays. political framework was created

This Child, what Kind of India will She see? The place of meeting which has lasted till now.

Ought it to last for ever, un- how to make an Indian Central changes to familiarise all

Government strong enough to changed? India with the Congress. At their best the States re- take the weight of the Provinces

The

TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1837.

"RUBBER STAMP"

LEGISLATION A matter which is not with out its interest to Hongkong was raised in the House of Commons recently, when the Leader of the Opposition lodgel a protest against what he des- stamp"

I could name Calcutta colleges whose numbers are so immense that hundreds of students never get inside the classrooms. The teachers' words come to them on verandus, as a vague blurring

How do such colleges keep full? By touting for brilliant students, offering them large students scholarships. These are decoys.

A quality of personal and to prevent revolution. Its central cabinet is styled present

rule which

** the Working Committee. Local understanding centres keep the Congress active Indians prefer to cold-blooded

What are India's most noise. efficiency. At their worst they represent what would not be everywhere and always.

guns pressing problems? Sympathetic British ex-offi- tolerated unless British

Poverty, Ignorance, Com- cials brought it into being in were behind it.

Just now the Princes are short Indian thought 1885. They

of far-sighted leaders. They munal Dissension. Gracious offi-

Further, some of the profes- opinion should have expression.

are straining every resource to cial receptions, the Princes preserve their sovereignty in- dazzling hospitality, may throw sors have to bring their own The Congress then desired decent representation of Indians in the tact, as their price for entering a film over the poverty for our rations. That is, unless they higher services. Representation the All-India Federation. A fot own people, but I have never met bring along thirty or forty pay- cribed As "rubber

down their jobs. These colleges was conceded so grudgingly that of nonsense is talked about them any American or Dominions visi- ing students they do not hold

tor who was not aghast at it. methods of législation. The

These visitors come to con- turn out misery and unemploy- the aim changed, and control of in our snob-Press.

Part of the remedy is clusjons flattering neither to ment. measure before the House was

the political machine-Govern." the Special Areas Bill; and Mr.ment itself and the-legislative

Indians nor ourselves. By what obvious. But no one will ever right (I have been asked, re- have the pluck to apply it.

** Attlee's point was contained in assemblies, then nominated and

peatedly) do we forbid India, however desperate her need, to the fact that, by reason of the official-was seen to be neces- to the new Constitution? limited scope of financini sary.

areas

Why do Indians object

500?

Because they were ignored in touch the swollen expense of her Is India ever going to

Why resolution in connection with By degrees Moderates dis- the final stages of its making; higher administration? the Bill, amendment of the en-appeared, a process completed by because they distrust what they does a member of the Viceory's be educated?

Yes by the films. Landing actment was rendered impossi-General Dyer's shooting down of have seen (or suspect) of alli- Council get £6,000 (with a large

parties who wish to keep things South Africa's Premier gets £3,- in Bombay, I read: "Monster Film-Star Competition Fifty ble. Attention was drawn to 1,600 people at Amritsar in 1019, ances behind the scenes, between pension in the offing), when

India for a while was united by essentially unchanged. the point that when the Bill was anger and sense of humiliation, But a difference is admitted Why are we complacent, if Thousand Rupees MUST Be under discussion on a previous and Mr. Gandhi launched "Non- between the Constitution for the this is the result of our rule? WON!".

At a railway station a charm- Central Government and that for And why, with such a terrify Violent Non-Co-operation." occasion, members were pre-.

If carried out this would have the Provinces. The Constitution ingly low standard of living in ing, intelligent little boy coaxed disliked by their own land, do Indians domi- me to buy some chocolate. I. vented from moving an amend-

made the British position in for the Centre is ment for the inclusion of other India untenable. It was carried Moderates us well as Congress ciled in a Dominion and enjoying gave him baksheesh also, so But he kept pestering me with a because the areas were out only by sections of the Hindu men, as being so over-weighted a far higher standard grouse at thought I had done my duty. ed interests and the 500 Princes The next census will show a Hindustani word I did not know. defined in the financial resolu- community. Congress, still the with representation of the land- their lot?

most important organisation in

as to be a monstrosity..

four hundred million population. It sounded like "Coupon." I tion, which could not be varied India, is now mainly a Hindu one.

The Provincial Governments, Yet the land is mostly bones, opened the chocolate and found was delighted, The result of procedure of this

on the other hand, are admitted with hardly any breasts. The a coupon! He

un and showed me a pile of coupons. type, it was argued, was to take

to concede real power to the people's life is idiotically people.

hygienic. This November twice Rather, touched, I thought, from the House control of

A few-mostly Rajput-have In defence of the British Gov- within ten minutes I saw men "Here is a little boy working legislation. "What is happen-

titles older than the British Government; it should be remember- gargle and sluice their mouths hard to become entitled to get ing to-day," said Mr. Attlee, ernment's. When the British ed that the four years of Round-back into a well, the only something jolly, a fountain pen

perhaps." "is that our legislation is being went to Indla they had sunk Into Table Conferences made a pitiful drinking water! framed in

civil subordination to the Emperor at exhibition of Indian communal detail by

Delhi.

quarrels. servants and experts. The only

Also, European Governments eneck on the bureaucratic mind of Hyderabad and the Mahratta changed so fast and alarmingly is the Minister, and he himself Princes, are descendants of great that the British Government be máy have a bureaucratic mind," officials of the Emperor of the came obsessed with one thought Peshwa (ucting Head of the of all parties Mahratta confederation in the associated themselves with the eighteenth century). protest, and, eventually the These States vary greatly in Attorney General announced extent and power. Hyderabad that the Government were

Representatives

What are the Princes?

Others, including the Nizam

Try for Yourself this

But I found that what he There are many Indians, of ail creeds, of a culture and per- would ultimately get was five sonal charm no race has ever film star pictures one Indian surpassed. Yet the educational lady mixed in with them. Think and sleeps on a nag; and he is system is quite mad, and is get of it! That boy lives in a hovel collecting to obtain our synthetic ting worse every year.

beauties.

Ramshackle tents on lorries. take the cinema to remote ham.. lets. I saw a tent in shadow of renowned Buddhist shrine.

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court-

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cigarettes were before it, and from the tent came crooned Jazz about "My Baby." India is pro- ducing her own films,. þad Holly- wood in Oriental clothes.

RE Anger-prints infallible clues in prepared to consider the matter, detailed working of the mea.

the detection of crime? and if, after discussion with sures to be applied by means of There have been suggestions re-

each day in time for the opening of It is cently that they may not be; but 50 Mr. Attlee, such a step secmed regulations thereunder.

overwhelming is the evidence in the London police courts.

Every person detained for a crime

The peasant's mind, untouch- desirable, the Government true that in many

be is invited to have his finger-prints

taken, and if he is a first offender the ed through millenniums is going regulations would set up an inquiry by a these

"dabs"

the reach

without to be swiftly and thoroughly re- Select Committee to go into the come before the Legislative million sets of anger-prints at Scot- comment.

Regular criminals are so used to made! In five years, both Hindu whole of the issues involved. Council for approval, but there land Yard and the 00 experts who the routine that they hold out their and Moslem cultures are going to keep up to date this Who's Who of hands automatically. The operation be smashed, and India will be as We have remarked that the ure innumerable other cases in crime have supreme confidence in may occupy five minutes, because daft as we are (on top of its own

or other the value of the records of which subject is one which is not with- which the polica

brands of silliness), they are in charge.

A wise Government would find Tell-tale Impression out its interest to this Colony. authorities take to themselves The Finger-prints Department and

Record the Criminal

Office

the money-even if it meant cut- That is ao, not because precisely the power of laying down rules Scotland Yard are controlled by

INGER Impressions are divided ting down the colleges, even if into main groups of arches, it meant cutting down the swank the same point in encountered which are not even gazetted. It Superintendent Harry Battley.

nssistants, Chief Inspectors L. Akc-

tented arches, loops sloping to the' here. but because our Oris easy to see that, in these hurst and C. Camplon, deal parti- left, loops aloping to the right. and extravagance of its own cularly with the criminal records

whorls, central pocket loops, and higher circles-to provide every- dinances and regulations con- circumstances, there is wide and crime Index sections.

accidentals. 1

where a free service of instruc- tain ample evidence of "rubber scope given to what Mr. Attlee Checked Each Day The skin is engraved with furrows tion in elementary common-

which form clevations called ridges, | stamp" methods of legislation. has described as the bureauera- This is usually achieved by the tic mind, in the operation of ONE of the first lessons given to and when the finger touches a sense through the films (resist the pollee recruit is on how to smooth surface a tell-tale impression ing the temptation to slip in take finger-prints. From all parts of is left.

propaganda in favour of Itself). process of skeleton Bills which which there is a distinct danger London there is a never-densing pro-

Try it for yourself. Let a friend merely touch the main principles of Individual rights being im- ecasion of these prints to Scotland grip, a sheet of white paper armly But this will not happen. No "No ono fusses. No one is going to between noger und humb

fuss. of the legislation and leave the pinged upon.

(Continued on Page 4.)

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Yard, and the "dabs," be they are 'called, "are" chocked and reported on