India and the future . Sannyasi. B yasi. tSenares. A Barbers Shop, Benares. [To face p. 105. MANNERS people, who see their ahen rulers, when the business of running the country is over, withdraw into impregnablecaste-strongholds, with the almost openly-confessed designof washing their hands of India, and returning in spiritto their island home. The club is a far more irritatingmark of subjection than the cantonment. The better sort of British official feels the drawbacks ofthe situation acutely, and is unwearied in his efforts todiminish them. Aided sometimes (not always) by hiswomenfolk, he t
India and the future . Sannyasi. B yasi. tSenares. A Barbers Shop, Benares. [To face p. 105. MANNERS people, who see their ahen rulers, when the business of running the country is over, withdraw into impregnablecaste-strongholds, with the almost openly-confessed designof washing their hands of India, and returning in spiritto their island home. The club is a far more irritatingmark of subjection than the cantonment. The better sort of British official feels the drawbacks ofthe situation acutely, and is unwearied in his efforts todiminish them. Aided sometimes (not always) by hiswomenfolk, he tries to establish some reasonable systemof social intercourse with his Indian colleagues and sub-ordinates. Now and then he succeeds in a certain measure ;but he has two great difficulties to encounter : obstinateprejudice among the stupider members of his own race,and the domestic arrangements and traditions of theother race. Very often the personal relations betweenBritish officials and their Indian assistants are excellent-relations of sincere
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