"MOTHER INDIA"
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I have read with much sympathy Mr. Birendranath Gupta's letter in your issue of October 1st. I served over thirty-six years in India, of which thirty years were spent in the Police, and this gave me much opportunity of under- standing Indian life.
It is true that Miss Mayo's book excluded the good and noble side of Indian life. The Hindus are deeply religious and humanely inclined. They have no Poor Law nor desire for it. They arc ready to help the lame dog. This tends to save the waster from the penalty for his ways, and so is probably not advisable from a national and economical point, but it is an evidence of the milk of human kindness. There is hardly any drunkenness or abuse of alcohol.
If Hindus were to draw up a black list against us, a very black one could be made out. Many of us recognize this and are striving to right what is wrong. Will Mr. Biren- dranath Gupta and all men of good will, British and Indian, join in the good fight ?—I am, Sir, &c.,
GEO. CHRYSTIE,
Colonel.
Short Heath Lodge, Farnham, Surrey.
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