WHAT IS INDIA?
[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."' Sta,—If, as your correspondent Mr. B. Houghton says (Spectator. October 130), " nearly all India, without distinction of race or language or creed, is united in a demand for a substantial measure of self-government." how is it that " nearly all India " stands in need of Mrs. Besant to " voice " the demand? Before she went to India, Mrs. Besant was known as the political nesodabs of the late Charles Bredlaugh, and since she went to India Mrs. Besant has been known as the preacher of the mystical creed called Theosophy, a creed most people regard as unintelligible, and some people as blasphemous. For my part I only ask, Who is Mrs. Savant that she should " voice " an Indian demand, and how• does Mr. Houghton know that there I. any such demaed ?—
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