THE FUTURE OF INDIAN POLITICS
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to burst out.
when open
We were
not therefore surprised
occurred in 1919 in this
trouble
very Province. I
will ask the reader to refer to the descrip-
tion
of
India
the
was
state
high tension in which
of
living since 1914
War
the beginning of the
:
;
her enthusiasm
at
the hopes excited
by the voiced gratitude of Britain for her eager help in the first days in September, 1914 the ;
strenuous exhortations and uplifted ideals by
western statesmen
huge loans and strong recruit men, especially in the
pressure, leading
endeavours
to
North, which, as the
to
said,
became exasperated by
ill-government of Sir Michael
the unwise use of
then the increasing War-
;
India
Act
of to
O'Dwyer
the Press Act and Defence
put
down
the
advocates
Reform the huge number of mostly young internees and the cruelly harsh treatment meted out to them, with
of
the
political
insecurity
;
of
liberty
and
property
to