That that system has been productive of much good few will deny, but few also can be so blind as to ignore the fact that it tends on the one hand to create a semi-educated proletariate, unemployed and largely unemployable, and on the other hand, even where failure is less complete, to produce dangerous hybrids, more or less superficially imbued with Western ideas, and at the same time more or less completely divorced from the realities of Indian life.

Many other circumstances also which have helped the promoters of disaffection I must reserve for subsequent discussion.

Some of them are economic, such as the remarkable rise in prices during the last decade.

This has seriously enhanced the cost of living in India and has specially affected the very classes amongst whom disaffection is most widespread.

The clerk, the teacher, the petty Government official, whose exiguous salaries have remained the same, find themselves to-day relatively, and in many cases actually, worse off than the artisan or even the labourer, whose wages have in many cases risen in proportion to the increased cost of living.