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Title: Indian Unrest

Author: Valentine Chirol

Release Date: August 5, 2005 [EBook #16444]

Language: English

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INDIAN UNREST

By

VALENTINE CHIROL

A Reprint, revised and enlarged, from "The Times,"
with an introduction by Sir Alfred Lyall

_We have now, as it were, before
us, in that vast congeries of peoples
we call India, a long, slow march
in uneven stages through all the
centuries from the fifth to the twentieth._

--VISCOUNT MORLEY.

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1910

DEDICATED BY PERMISSION

TO

VISCOUNT MORLEY

AS A TRIBUTE
OF PRIVATE FRIENDSHIP AND
PUBLIC RESPECT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

INTRODUCTION. BY SIR ALFRED C. LYALL VII

I. A GENERAL SURVEY 1

II. SWARAJ ON THE PLATFORM AND IN THE PRESS 8

III. A HINDU REVIVAL 24

IV. BRAHMANISM AND DISAFFECTION IN THE DECCAN 37

V. POONA AND KOLHAPUR 64

VI. BENGAL BEFORE THE PARTITION 72

VII. THE STORM IN BENGAL 81

VIII. THE PUNJAB AND THE ARYA SAMAJ 106

IX. THE POSITION OF THE MAHOMEDANS 118

X. SOUTHERN INDIA 136

XI. REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATIONS OUTSIDE INDIA 145

XII. THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS 154

XIII. CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS 162

XIV. THE DEPRESSED CASTES 176

XV. THE NATIVE STATES 185

XVI. CROSS CURRENTS 198

XVII. THE GROWTH OF WESTERN EDUCATION 207

XVIII. THE INDIAN STUDENT 216

XIX. SOME MEASURES OF EDUCATIONAL REFORM 229

XX. THE