REFLECTIONS ON INDIA.
[To rim Bowen or TIM "ersor■ros."1
Sis,—In your very interesting article, "Reflections on India" (Spectator, May 23rd), you refer to Mr. Wadia's statement that to the Sikh or the Mahratta the Bengali is quite as much a foreigner as the Englishman. Is that really so ? The self. governing Colonies are teaching in an unmistakable manner that the gulf between the Indian and the European is unbridgable, and by classing all Indians together, in thei- anti-Asiatic laws, are drawing togther the Indian peoples I wish the Colonies did their work in this respect more rigorously. The union of the different races is taking place, not in India, but in England and the self-governing Colonies. If Paul Kruger strengthened the bonds of the British Empire during the South African War, the self-governing Colonies are of no less service to India in breaking down the barriers which are keeping her peoples apart from each other.—I am,
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