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make radical suggestions, or, if made, to press them 

 upon his superiors in office. It is the same with 

 private residents, solicitors, barristers, engineers, 

 doctors, manufacturers, planters, miners, merchants. 

 They know that it is better for them if they do 

 not interfere with the Government or make unwanted 

 suggestions. They must not try to teach the 

 Government how to govern. It is seldom that an 

 engineer visits India without some business or 

 professional object, or it may well be he thinks that 

 some day he may wish to visit India again with 

 some business or professional object, and therefore 

 he will wisely be careful not to say or do anything 

 when he is there or when he returns home which 

 might possibly be disagreeable to the Government 

 or any of his friends. 



I do not propose in this book to deal with 

 the great problems of autocratic, aristocratic or 

 democratic government, with Indian Home Rule 

 or Indian Independence, with Indian Councils and 

 Indian Parliaments, as to whether India should 

 be entirely independent and have no official connec- 

 tion with Great Britain, whether or not it should 

 govern itself as one great country under one great 

 Government of its own, or whether or not it should 

 be a Union of States like the United States of 

 America, or whether or not it should be as in former 

 days, a country divided into entirely separate and 

 independent States. All these are subjects to which 

 I have not given sufficient serious study to entitle me 

 to trouble other people with my opinions about them. 



