ABSTRACT
British sovereignty over India has brought East and West into their most intimate and continuous relationship. Neither commercial intercourse nor missionary enterprise has brought the two civilizations into such close contact. The Asiatics have been free to hold aloof from these latter spheres of activity, but hundreds of millions have been forced by taxation and police power to accept protection from and obey the orders of European administrators. The results of government are so far-reaching that any groups which presume to perform its functions are universally required to justify their holding of such power. This is especially true when one people is governed by aliens from a distant land. No problem touching India has recently attracted so much attention or been fraught with such possibilities for good or ill as has the question of British rule. The modern economic problems of India cannot be discussed without some reference to the influence upon them of the British government. Our immediate problem is that of the influence of the government upon the growth of modern industry.
