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 
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