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these principles which suited only advanced conditions should be allowed to work out their effects in a totally dissimilar atmosphere without the elements indispensable for the successful application of thein, was a well-meant error leading to results utterly contrary to those that were expected. This was not foreseen by these statesmen who laid the outlives of the British Indian Government. They benevolently hoped that the principles of natural selection, survival of the fittest and so on, could be applied to the benefit of the various communities of India as they were applied in England, and thus the backward mong the Indian population were left protected victims of the luissa. faire system This letting alove the different castes to evolve their own salvation, the state letting the crippled meu lag behind and the stouter to beat them down in an unequal competition was for a time unavoidable in the interests of a foreign domination whose first case was and ought to be the establishment of peace and settled Government. It is also true that any other policy would have during those days been anything but successful merely because a preferential lift even if offered, would have done no good to the decrepit communities who had yet to gather strength for a new effort at social advancement.
The coming struggle. But since then a vast change has come over Indian society, demanding a change in policy on the part of the state as well as of the leaders of the public. The policy of indifference as to who is taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the state, has had full play for more than half a century and we can now see how the masses of India have fared under its operatio. A party of liberal-minded educated men has indeed always tried to elevate the whole nation by bestowing special attention on the needs of the masses. In the early days of its existence, this party vividly realised the fact that social, moral, religious, in faut all round, equality must be established between the races and creeds of India and they tried for a time in this direction. But the old and stubborn hankering after class
| SR No. | 542510 |
| Book Title | Jain Gazette 1905 10 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Student Institute Kolhapur |
| Publisher | Jain Student Institute Kolhapur |
| Publication Year | 1905 |
| Total Pages | 28 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Gazette, & India |
| File Size | 5 MB |