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held it on any other than legitimate conditions. I 

 also had much genial intercourse with, and formed 

 a high opinion of another Jiinaghar official, Xarsing 

 Prasaad, who was also a Nagar Brahman, and had 

 the advantage of having previously served in the 

 English agency. No one can accuse me of an undue 

 regard for native states or native officials ; and, for 

 many reasons which cannot here he entered into, I 

 look with disapproval on the whole process, as now 

 pursued, of pushing forward natives into Government 

 employment in British India; but in Kathiawar, if 

 some of the native states were backward, and showed 

 an undue adherence to time-honoured vicious customs, 

 there were quite as serious faults in the method of 

 dealing with them pursued by the Rajkot agency and 

 the Bombay Government. This is a subject, however, 

 which belongs to Kathiawar in general, rather than to 

 Junaghar in particular. 



Mr Kinloch Forbes, of the ' Ras Mala,' who both 

 knew the natives of India and loved them well, has 

 said that " we should recollect, in regard to the 

 Hindus as a people, that they are almost as different 

 from ourselves as the laws of nature will permit one 

 set of men to be from another." This was a true 

 enough statement for his time, though an extended 

 knowledge of the Chinese and of other races has since 

 indicated that there is a wider and deeper (though still 

 by no means an impassable) gulf between ourselves 

 and many peoples than there is between us and the 



