India and the future . I Brahui. Shepherd Class. [To face p. iji. THE INDIAN OPPOSITION been for lack of earnest thought and deUberation. It isuseless to talk as if it had been animated by insane ac-quisitiveness or reckless and wanton extravagance. One argument frequently advanced on the side of theOpposition I hold to be clearly fallacious. In his evidencebefore the Welby Commission (1897), Mr. Gokhale said: If England thinks that a certain number of Europeanofficers and a certain strength of the European army mustalways be maintained in India, she must be preparedto pay a fair share of the

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India and the future . I Brahui. Shepherd Class. [To face p. iji. THE INDIAN OPPOSITION been for lack of earnest thought and deUberation. It isuseless to talk as if it had been animated by insane ac-quisitiveness or reckless and wanton extravagance. One argument frequently advanced on the side of theOpposition I hold to be clearly fallacious. In his evidencebefore the Welby Commission (1897), Mr. Gokhale said: If England thinks that a certain number of Europeanofficers and a certain strength of the European army mustalways be maintained in India, she must be preparedto pay a fair share of the cost . . the maintenance ofBritish supremacy in India being a matter affecting themost vital interests of England. And in his BudgetSpeech of 1905, in the Imperial Legislative Council, Mr,Gokhale repeated the same argument : It is said thatIndia is the strategic frontier of the British Empire. Ifso, the defence of such frontiers is clearly an Imperialresponsibility, and India ought to be relieved of part ofher presen

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