CHAPTER VI 



THE INDIAN POPULATION 



Perhaps the most difficult and at the same time the 

 most pressing problem at present in the Protectorate 

 is that afforded by the Indian population. Hard as 

 this problem would be to settle if left entirely to the 

 discretion of those on the spot and who see and know 

 the special conditions existing, it is rendered even 

 harder by those at home who meddle, with insufficient 

 knowledge though no doubt with the best intentions. 



If you divide the population of British East Africa 

 roughly into three classes : Europeans, Indians, and 

 Native population, one would have thought that 

 logically, other things being equal, on general questions 

 the sympathy of educated classes in England should 

 have lain in the first place with the native population, 

 secondly with the European, and, lastly, with the 

 Indian. The reason that I should have expected the 

 natives to have first claim is because of the consider- 

 ation that he is the original occupier and owner. 

 Countless centuries have seen no change in his 

 condition. From time immemorial he has fought and 

 worked, fed and starved, married and died, undisturbed, 

 as far as we know, by any outside influence. Then 

 suddenly appeared the white man, and in the twinkling 



