Some anxiety may mingle with the satisfaction which the decision
to bring Indian workers to this country and billet them, after a preliminary training, in British workers' homes must inspire. If the experiment succeeds it will have achieved a great deal, and the Indians, when they return home, may do much to mould the future shape of Indian industry. But the risk of its not succeeding is considerable. To the average Indian the English working man's home will be a strange place, and in the English working man's household an Indian will be a strange inmate. Indians at our universities have, to our reproach, rarely been completely assimilated, or been able to see and experience the best of English life. The Indian artisans may fare better. They may find genuine comradeship—or they may go home disillusioned and embittered.
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