AFTER MOTHER INDIA

and Miss Mayo's bittingsgate [sic] has gone home
more effectively than the long and patient propa-
ganda of social reformers in many circles hitherto
but slightly responsive to their reasoned argu-
ments,1

The primary object of Mother India, as the author
makes clear in its first chapter, was, however, not to
reform but to inform. The reforming power since de-
veloped by the book as toward the Hindu social status,
has been bestowed upon it by those hundreds of thou-
sands of Western readers who have grasped its mes-
sage.

But if for any reason whatsoever its issues are allowed
to be blurred over, confused, or twisted, then, perhaps,
the greatest impulse for reform in Hindu India's his-
tory may be frittered away. ^ .

1 Indian Social Reformer, K. Natarajan editor, Bombay, March
9th, 1929, p. 433.

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