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its exclusive civil service, and in the supremacy 

 of a handful of foreigners. When natives of 

 India come to this country they are delighted 

 with England and Englishmen. They find 

 themselves treated with a kindness, a consider- 

 ation, a respect, to which they are wholly 

 strangers in their own country, and they 

 cannot understand how it is that men who 

 are so just, so attentive to them here, some- 

 times, indeed too often, appear to them in a 

 different character in India." That this is only 

 a correct picture no one will venture to deny, 

 though some may attempt to extenuate the 

 haughty bearing of Indian officials towards the 

 natives in India. There are persons moreover 

 holding a high position in the London circles, 

 who never think their crowded parties com- 

 plete without the presence of an Indian gen- 

 tleman, who would perchance scarcely have 

 offered a chair to that same gentleman when 

 they held office in India. The members of 

 the civil service are in this respect far more 

 exclusive than military men, but even the 

 latter rarely associate with natives. This, no 

 doubt, arises in a great degree from the social 

 gulf that separates native gentlemen in India 



