In India, of all places in the world, the maxim festina lente--go slow--is applicable.

You have the prejudices of a couple of thousand years against change.

The people of all things are jealous of the slightest appearance of interference with their customs.
The change will no doubt come in time, but it must come gradually, and must be the work of the natives themselves and not of us.

To try to hasten that time would be but to defer it.

Now, child, there is the bell; now just attend to the business in hand." "Very well, Doctor, I will obey your orders, but it is only fair to say that Mr.Bathurst's remarks are only in answer to something I said," and Isobel turned to watch the race, but with an interest less ardent than she had before felt.
Isobel's character was an essentially earnest one, and her life up to the day of her departure to India had been one of few pleasures.