For Takshaka rescued the snakes from
the vengeance of Janamajaya, the great-grandson of the _Mahabharata_
hero Arjuna. The independent Indian Princes conduct their administration
exactly on the lines indicated in the _Mahabharata_, and even States as
enlightened as Baroda and Kolhapur still adhere to the Council of eight
Ministers recommended in that immortal work. Indeed, its teachings
really explain the puzzle of Indian loyalty to the British Government.
According to Western ideas, no amount of _pax Britannica_ would
compensate the conquered for foreign rule. The Poles still sigh for the
bad old days of independence and misrule, and are in no way comforted by
the efficiency of German administration. But the Indian's allegiance to
his native kings was, as the _Mahabharata_, lays down, released by their
weakness, and he readily transferred his loyalty to those who, although
foreign, had yet shown that they could govern vigorously.

INDEX

Acts of Parliament:
Age of Consent Act (1891),42, 75.
Charter Act (1833), 307, 308, 310.
Explosive Substances Act (1908), 98.
Government of India Act (1858), 307, 310.
Indian Councils Act (1909), 10, 100, 120, 162-175.
Indian Newspapers (Incitement
to Offences) Act, (1908), 96, 98.
Press Act (1910), 15, 98-99,335-337.
Punjab Land Alienation Act (1900), 156.
Summary Justice Act (1908), 98.
Universities Act (1904), 78,2, 229.

Administration of British India,
comparison of the total
number of Englishmen and
Indians employed in, 293.

Aga Khan, 132, 133.

Age of Consent Act, 1891,42, 75.

Agriculture, the greatest of
all Indian industries, 259;
need for practical education in, 262.

Ahmad, Sir Syed, 122, 131.

Aitchison, Sir Charles, 213.

Ajit Singh, proceedings against, 112.

_Akash_, newspaper, Delhi, 21.

Ali, Mr. Ameer, 132.

All-India Moslem League, 131,132, 281.

All-India Temperance Conference, 200.

America, Indian revolutionary
organizations in, 146, 147.

Anglo-Russian Agreement, 319.

"Animists," 177.

Anti Cow-killing Society, founded by Tilak in 1893, 43.

_Anusilan Samiti_ Society, 99.

Army, Indian, position of Indians in, 328.

Arya Samaj, 27; founded by Swami Dayanand, 109; work
of, 110-112; seditious activity of its members, 112-114;
its scheme for restoring the Vedic system of