. Indian life in town and country . ons; he is a link between thepresent and the past. What is the coming or go-ing of a sober-coated foreigner to them ? What,even, the marriage of a Viceroy? But when arajah comes into his own, or marries, or has ason born to him, then is the whole kingdom inter-ested, entertained, and made happy in a round offeasting and festivities free to all. And if he squeezes his ryots to get moneyto build a new palace, or deck with jewels thelatest favourite in his zenana, or to entertain aViceroy, or—newest and most extravagant whimof all!—to make a summer trip to Engl
. Indian life in town and country . ons; he is a link between thepresent and the past. What is the coming or go-ing of a sober-coated foreigner to them ? What,even, the marriage of a Viceroy? But when arajah comes into his own, or marries, or has ason born to him, then is the whole kingdom inter-ested, entertained, and made happy in a round offeasting and festivities free to all. And if he squeezes his ryots to get moneyto build a new palace, or deck with jewels thelatest favourite in his zenana, or to entertain aViceroy, or—newest and most extravagant whimof all!—to make a summer trip to England, well,there is the land; it bears crops. There is theland-tiller; he is patient and long-suffering. Hehas paid the piper for ages, and never called the 66 Indian Life tune. He can go on paying! And whilst hisliege lord and master is astonishing the richestcity in the world with the glitter of his gems, andthe magnificence of his establishment, the poorestsubject in the world merely turns his eyes to theblue skies and CHAPTKR V JACKS IN OFFIC:^ WK have seen how India is divided by race,language, religion, caste, and wealth,but there is yet another division, which, althoughit only detaches a fraction from the whole, stilldemands attention, because it is the governingelement. And the members of it afford an ad-mirable illustration of the attitude we understandby the phrase Jacks in Ofl5ce. The possibilities of temporal power are nowheremore thoroughly appreciated and developed thanin India. The Indian official, European or na-tive, is the master, not the servant, of the is not too much to say that the native has ele-vated service under Government into somethingvery like a privileged predatory caste, commonto Hindu and Mahomedan. The Man in Au-thority, no matter how humble his appointment,draws away from his fellows, and acquires a defi-nite position and power over them from his asso-ciation with the machinery of Government. Thehighest ambition of every na
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