23 APRIL 1942, Page 11

Sit—Mr. W. A. Hirst's letter in The Spectator of April

loth is timely. The one thing which the people of India dread is to be put into the hands of their fellow countrymen ; for of course the talking mob of• half- educated Indians are not the people of India, they are the froth of India's worst fault. I told one of these flatulent young men this, after he had been allowed to talk unreproved for an hour in my house, and the one sentence completely shut him up: he did not utter one single word, but

went away. I have tried to tell Members of Parliament, including tubers for my own university, but they will not listen.

I lived in India as a boy, and I have studied India and Indians for University Teacher of Sanskrit, 1903-1938. Hilton Manor, Cambs.