frated in a letter received from th 
Bengal coal field, a district 200 mile 
Lucknow, but the ob 
ject-—as indeed almost every rural 
district now is the object—of the 
same incessant anti-English propa¬ 
ganda. In the two districts he men¬ 
tions, my correspondent says that the 
whole area, including^,the towns, is ir 
a state of ferment. The superstition 
greed and ignorance of the lowe 
classes of labor have been canvasse^ 
to assist in promoting class hatred 
between European and Indian. The 
methods adopted are first to create 
discontent in the minds of all the la¬ 
boring classes in regard to wages. At 
the same time sufficient religious sen¬ 
timent is introduced to enable the au¬ 
thors, of the movement to create a 
“calm atmosphere” in .which ; they ca 
adopt a tone of authority. The re 
suit is that the lower class peopl 
carry, out the commands of these' agi 
tators without question,, often aeeoim 
pained by cries of “Gandhi Maharaj 
wi. jai” (victory to Maharaja Gandhi)' 
{While the C population is in this ex 
cited condition, rumor? of all kinds 
mainly hostile to the government, ar 
spread in, every direction. 
Europeans are the exclusive object 
of the agitators’ attention in certain 
(districts and the'methods adopted are 
'calculated to provoke them to the 
very limit of patience. In the town 
of Rancegunge, which is a large na¬ 
tive mining town consisting of Mo¬ 
hammedans, Hindus and Marwaris, 
the effects of the efforts of one agi¬ 
tator alone has been sufficient' to 
close down entirely four very large 
works. In the case of two concerns 
the whole of the staff and workpeo-, 
pie, including personal servants, left! 
without, notice* and secret was the 1 
arrangement that no one had any 
idea of what was about to happen. 
| Not a European has a personal 
j vant other 
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