"A Continent Experiments" by Birdwood C. B.
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To any thoughtful reader of this book certain reflections will probably
occur. However anxious we may be to accelerate and complete the
progress of India towards self-government, true and informed lovers of
India will be careful of attempting short cuts. For these may easily lead
that country into a quagmire of trouble in which the gains of a century
would be utterly submerged. What seems the longest way round may
well be the shortest way home.
No one who knows India would claim to be an unerring guide through
all its complexities or to be possessed of an infallible answer to all its
problems. Colonel Birdwood certainly makes no such claim ; and he
shows himself fully aware that behind the political issues, which bulk
so largely in the public eye, is an economic problem quite as stubborn
and possibly even more relevant to the well-being of India and its peoples.
From public India library
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