mined effort not to slow down the process of enrich-
ing Britain. The British public were at the zenith
of their Mid-Victorian Liberalism thinking in terms of
being the apostles of a new world order. Indian po-
licy was therefore directed towards two objectives:
First, to impose on an ancient and highly complex
culture and society which the Britishers considered
inferior, the outward semblances of a crude European
culture.
Second, to concentrate all political power in the
hands of the governing Corporation, the civil service
composed of the British and their Indian instruments,
who were allowed a free hand only so long as they
earned heavy dividends for Britain and did nothing
to shock the British conscience.
Third, to carry out imperialistic ambition but
never to the edge of a revolutionary precipice,
The British Imperialism may be more humane than
others in history; an individual British Civil servant
may be a hardworking, honest man; the British public
opinion may be at times highly sensitive to demo-
cratic ideas. But these factors made very little differ-
ence to the steady exploitation of the country and the
utter unfitness of the governing corporation to acquire
the outlook and energy of a national government.
Britain's was a cold-blooded rule. And no won-
der India was bled white. Now that a new^era of
friendship between India and Britain is dawning
India has a right to look forward to Britain help*
ing her to make up for what she has lost under
Britain's self-imposed trusteeship.