India Analysed II. [antikvár]

EDITORS' PREFACE TO THE SERIES The aim of the "India Analysed " series is to give in four volumes a picture of present-day India. The writers, English and Indián, who are best qualified to speak on the subject have been asked to contribute. The books do not seek to press any sectional point of view, but aim at producing a composite picture. Where the views expressed by the contributors differ from one another, it is left to the reader to appreciate the difFerence of opinion, to weigh the pros and cons as they are given to him, and to judge for himself. We have attempted to provide an interesting and detailed account of the Indián situation to-day, and the forces that have gone to make it up, but an account that is neither too technical nor lacking in generál interest. It is intended first and foremost for the man with an intelligent interest in Indián affairs who is not satisfied with the scrappy and often biased accounts he finds in the newspapers ; and secondly for the student who will only find such material by spending time he can ill afford among a pile of Indián journals. The series, in fact, attempts to give an integrated picture of India by bringing together the views of those Indians and Englishmen who can speak with authority. In Volume I., International, the contributors have between them dealt objectively with the many facets of India's international life : her significance in the complex international situation to-day ; her