3 APRIL 1909, Page 17

MR. .SINFIA.

[To TIIII EDITOR Or TUR "Sricuron."1

Eint,—Can the Times be right in calling the new member of the Viceroy's Council a Hindu P In its leading article of Wednesday, March 24th, it rather insists on this. On the Other hand, its correspondent in India describes him as "almost an Englishman." I understand he shed his Hinduism mauy years ago. The Anglicised Bengalis of Calcutta are not as a rule Hindus. I suspect Mr. Shill% has been selected for the high position he occupies because he is not a Hindu.

[Is the point of Mr. Sinha's actual religious beliefs very important P His sympathies are, we take it, undoubtedly With the Hindus.—En. Spectatori