The trouble in Bombay was certainly not a sudden and spontaneous outburst of popular feeling.

It bore throughout the impress of careful and deliberate organization.

By a happy combination of sympathy and firmness Sir George Clarke had, however, won the respect of the vast majority of the community, and though he failed to secure the active support which he might have expected from the "moderates," there were few of them who did not secretly approve and even welcome his action.

Its effects were great and enduring, for Tilak's conviction was a heavy blow--perhaps the heaviest which has been dealt--to the forces of unrest, at least in the Deccan; and some months later one of the organs of his party, the _Rashtramat_, reviewing the occurrences of the year, was fain to admit that "the sudden removal of Mr.Tilak's towering personality threw the whole province into dismay and unnerved the other leaders." The agitation in the Deccan did not die out with Tilak's disappearance, for he left his stamp upon a new generation, which he had educated and trained.

More than a year after Tilak had been removed to Mandalay, his doctrines bore fruit in the murder of Mr.Jackson, the Collector of Nasik--a murder which, in the whole lamentable record of political crimes in India, stands out in many ways pre-eminently infamous and significant.