20 HAPPY INDIA 



won victories in many a hard-fought field. It is, 

 however, to be hoped that in the future the cruel, 

 brutal, disastrous and foolish arbitrament of war 

 will cease between nations that call themselves 

 civilised. But it is not the object of this book to 

 give the history of India or to describe the Govern- 

 ment which there exists or to suggest a Government 

 which ought to exist, but merely to give the views 

 of an engineer travelling in that country who had no 

 axe to grind and no object to serve except to do 

 his best to gain a knowledge of essential facts and 

 to express them in such a way that they might be 

 of some interest to those people who wish to con- 

 sider the welfare of those great peoples that own the 

 sovereignty of the British King. 



