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view of eventual competition it should be India's advan- 

 tage to establish direct relationships with what promises 

 to be a large and developing market. (7) India is not 

 badly placed geographically in regard to Russia and Siberia 

 in view of future possibilities. (8) The Russians have the 

 reputation of loyalty to a connection, but demand personal 

 intercourse. (9) The expressed desire in Russia is to get 

 into close relationship with producing countries. (10) The 

 prospect of return trade to India, though remote, still exists. 

 The immediate question to be considered and answered 

 would therefore seem to be " whether Indian hrms con- 

 sider it worth while to endeavour to cater direct for the 

 opening now (July, 19 17) existing and for future possi- 

 bilities, or whether they will be content to leave their trade 

 the step-child of some other country, i.e., Germany, who has 

 studied Russia, and has had trade relations with her in the 

 past. Germany, who sits at one gate whilst Japan, who 

 is becoming more and more active in India, who is 

 developing a mercantile marine, and who is now sending 

 her commercial emissaries and information agencies in 

 large numbers to Russia, sits at another." 



CHAPTER XXI. 



India — Her Duty towards the Empire, and the 

 Empire's Duty towards India. ^ 



The many proposals for developing the latent resources 

 of the Empire and India that have recently been brought 

 before the notice of the public to be criticized, blamed, or 

 praised, all have one thought-compelling point in common, 

 no matter how diverse the policies of those who make or 

 who criticize the proposals may be. All agree emphati- 

 cally that such development is needed and that it must 



' This article is not, as I hoped would be the case, a reprint of what I 

 wrote for the Mysore Ecouohh'l Journal, but is based on the same notes, 

 and has the advantage of being more up to dale on one or two points. 

 As the December issue cjf the Bangalore Monthly did not include my 

 article, I have had to do what 1 could from my notes. What I now say 

 is, however, very similar to what I wrote last year. 



