OFFICES
OFFICE OF CRITICAL JINGOISM
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| DIRECTOR Ynez Proust |
ABOUT
Thousands upon thousands of Natives, of all ranks and position, have been employed in the Civil, Criminal, Revenue and other departments of the Administration, not only with credit to themselves but also to the Government whom they have served ; and now at the fag end Of the nineteenth century it was reserved for General
Chesney to tell as that Bengal has not produced a single administrator. His next argument is a mere repetetion of what appears periodic illv in the columns of the Pioneer, and we need not trouble our readers with a reason for the similarity. It will easilv suggest itself. But what are the grounds for the assumption we are not told. The rth-Western Provinces an>l the Punjab, where ths martial races have willingly acquisced in ;he decision of Bengali Deputy Magistrates, Sub-Judges, and Munsiffs. With regard to the accusation that the Indian is averse to give up his caste prejudices and take a voyage to England we know that these impediments to the growth of liberal views are fast receding before the light of culture and enlightenment, and that it is merely a matter of time these prejudices should altogether disappear. Another attem:it is being made to enlist the good feelings and sympathy of our Mahomedan fellow-subjects in favour of the Anglo-Indian and to our discomfiture. We might have had to say something on the matter if the Mahnrnedans had be«-n prevailed upon to move, but as they have observed a dignified silence and treated the attempt to ' convert' them to Jingoism with the reticence it deserves we too shall remain quiet. One word more to our readers and countrym2n and we have done. The debate on the Indian Civil Sarvice Examinations has conclusively proved thit wa could not look for justice or equity to any particular party in England.
