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INDIA
OLD AND NEW


BY
SIR VALENTINE CHIROL

AUTHOR OF "INDIAN UNREST," "THE EGYPTIAN PROBLEM," ETC.


"We shall in time so far improve the character of our
Indian subjects as to enable them to govern and protect
themselves."--Minute by Sir Thomas Munro, Governor
of Madras, Dec. 31, 1824.


MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1921




FOREWORD


It is little more than ten years since I wrote my _Indian Unrest_. But