MR. YEATS-BROWN ON INDIA
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—The only test anyone can apply to determine whether a cbntribution on India can be treated seriously is to see what the contributor has to say about the administration in the Indian States. According to the above test Mr. Yeats-Brown's articles on India can hardly be treated as a serious contribution to a subject which is so much in the limelight these days. In The Spectator of June 26th, 1936, Mr. Yeats-Brown has given his observations about the Hyderabad State. His statements teem with inaccuracies. Some of which are harmless, others dangerous. To catalogue these inaccuracies and to conunent upon them would make this letter inordinately long, but one may be permitted to ask your correspondent to let the readers of The Spectator know what those " five or six " Indian States are whose administration is " more efficient." According to Professor Laski, Lord Reading, and Sir John Simon there is only one State in India the methods of whose administration come up to the western standards. Lastly, I may say that Mr. Yeats-Brown's remark that if he had to " select a trium- virate of Indians to rule the peninsula" he "would choose" his host at Hyderabad, " Sir Mirza Ismail, and Sir Anand Sarup " shows that he has a curious conception of the conibina- nation which would go to make an efficient administration.—
the Osmania University, Hyderabad-Deccan, India.
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