SIR,—It seems to me that those who discuss the Indian
question have forgotten that India is, after all, a mere geographical term relating to the great peninsula which extends from the Himalayas to Ceylon and that the talk about self-determination has no application whatever to the geographical area but refers only to such national entities as may live in a defined space in that area. There are many such within the geographical area India but to them the idea based on national aspira- tions has no application, though it may be properly applied to separate nationalities living within the geographical area ; apart from these. references to national determination have no application to the geographi- cal area mentioned. Huxley sometimes referred to incompatible ideas by the illustration that " you cannot knock a nominative case down
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