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                    [Illustration: FELIX TIPNIS.]


                            INDIA AND THE

                               INDIANS



                          BY EDWARD F. ELWIN

           OF THE SOCIETY OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, COWLEY

   AUTHOR OF "INDIAN JOTTINGS," "THIRTY-FOUR YEARS IN POONA CITY,"
                    "STORIES OF INDIAN BOYS," ETC.




                          WITH ILLUSTRATIONS







                                LONDON

                  JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

                                 1913


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PREFACE


India is really waking up, but she is doing so in her own Indian way.
For some years past it has been one of my daily duties to arouse an
Indian boy, and I know exactly how an Indian wakes. It is a leisurely
process. He slowly stretches his legs and rubs his eyes, and it is at
least ten minutes before he can be said to be really wide awake. And
every morning I have to say exactly the same thing: "Now remember,
Felix, to say your prayers; then go and wash your hands and face, and
then feed the pony." And if on any particular morning I were to leave
this reminder unsaid, and Felix left any, or all of these duties,
undone, and I were to ask him the reason, he would reply, "You did not
tell me."

With India waking up, there never was a time when she stands more in
need of some kindly person at her side to tell her what to do. She
needs