[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR:] Sin,—India cannot sufficiently thank
you and Sir Arthur Ycunghusband for showing the English public that what India wants more than anything else is izzat. In this connexion a few observations regarding the treatment meted out to the Indians staying in England by the natives of the soil may not, I think, be out of place. I applied to a number of Looting clubs for admitting. me as a member. All of them returned an emphatic " no." The secretary of one club went so far as to suggest that an entirely white atmosphere might not prove congenial to an Indian. I know also several cases where Indians of undoubted merit and learning had tried in vain to get accommodation in the big hotels of London. To crown all, the London branch of the Imperial Bank of India cannot tolerate the idea of taking Indian students for .apprenticeship.
I can give heaps of instances to show that the Indians in England do not enjoy the same treatment as that shown to the citizens of the self-governing colonies. Most of the Indians cannot help feeling that the continental people treat them much better than the English who stand to gain so much from their connexion with India.
As you seem to be greatly interested in the promotion of good relationship between Great Britain and India, may I request you to champion the cause of izzat of those Indians who have the misfortune to find themselves in England ?—I
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