16 AUGUST 1924, Page 14

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—By your leave I

will ask some questions of your corres- pondent, "An Indian" (Spectator, August 2nd), and supply an answer. Who allowed the Indian population to increase ? The English. Who put down Maratha ravages and Pindhari raids ; who grappled with famine and plague, removed some of their causes and mitigated their worst results ? The English. Who extended the cultivated area by irrigation ? The English. Who made the conditions of the world such that Indians could migrate at all ? The English. Lastly, who gave the education which made it possible to formulate and express discontent ? The English.—I am, Sir, &c.,

AN ENGLISHMAN.