The writer of the series of articles on "Indian Unrest"
contributes a masterly vindication of the Indian Civil Service to Wednesday's issue of the Times. The vast machinery of executive and judicial administration in India employs over a million and a quarter Indians, while the Indian Civil Service numbers twelve hundred men, of whom nearly a hundred are Indians, and therefore cannot be regarded as a horde of overpaid foreign officials. Its unpardonable sin, however, to the Nationalist extremists is that it represents the bulwark of English rule, "the permanent link between the Government of India and the motley millions entrusted to their care." So far from the British civilian being unsympathetic to the natives, the writer asserts that he deserves the credit of almost every measure passed in the last fifty years for the benefit of the Indian masses,— "passed frequently in the teeth of vehement opposition from the Indian politician." The British civilian "in the beat sense of the word is the one real democrat in India," and extremists like Mr. Bepin Chandra Pal and the writers in the Yugantar have unconsciously paid him a significant tribute by admitting the need of destroying the contentedness of the people and their confidence in their rulers.
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