Indian Christians and Self-Government Sir John Thompson has done a
useful service in exposing the hollowness of the claim of Sir Henry Page Croft and his friends that the Indian Christians will lose all security when India receives self-government• Pointing out in a letter to The Times that there are more Indian Christians in the Indian States than in British India, Sir John adds that the 9,000 square miles of the two south Indian States of Travancore and Cochin contain more Indian Christians than the 700,000 miles of all the British provinces, including Burmah and Madras. A little dose of cold fact has often a very steadying effect. The Christians-in-danger scare is only one more example of the extraordinary ignorance of actual conditions in modern India displayed by the opponents of the White Paper policy, whose chief boast it always is that they alone know anything about what India is really like.
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