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shrine, durgah, or pilgrim centre, not on financial grounds, not because there is the slightest pretence at approximating a quid pro quo, but purely and simply out of religious animosity. The communal troubles are already distressing enough in India. Need we gratuitously make them worse by the inter position of these princely pranks? It is not only the Hindus and the Jains who resort to pilgrimages to distant centres. Every community resident in India has its shrines and durgahs and holy places, which its members hold it a great merit to visit occasionally. Now, if the local chiefs of each petty principality were allowed to tax the pilgrims to these centres, religious practice will be impossible, and religious toleration a mere figment of the brain. Were there no other reasons, we are convinced this great requirement of national statesmanship would put the contention of the Palitana Durbar summarily out of court.
