Chapter I: Foreword: By J. T. Sunderland

ILLUSTRATED

“The people of India are capable of administering their own affairs
and the municipal feeling is deep rooted in them. The village
communities, each of which is a little republic, are the most
abiding of Indian institutions.”

(LORD LAWRENCE, once Viceroy and Governor-General of British
India).

NEW YORK
B. W. HUEBSCH
1917

Copyright, 1916, by
B. W. HUEBSCH

First edition, August, 1916
Second edition, April, 1917

Printed in U. S. A.

DEDICATED
TO
THE MEMORY OF MY DEAREST FRIEND
THE LATE LAMENTED
DWARKA DASS, M. A. OF THE PUNJAB
WHO DIED OF A BROKEN HEART, AT THE
COLLAPSE OF PUBLIC LIFE IN
HIS NATIVE PROVINCE,
(OCTOBER 1912)
AS AN HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO HIS UNCOMPROMISING
ATTITUDE TOWARDS PUBLIC LIFE, HIS
LOFTY PRINCIPLES, AND HIS NOBLE
ADVOCACY OF THEM