ABSTRACT
There are different answers which might be given to these questions, but here I shall give one historical explanation which has strongly appealed to me for many years past; for it appears to me to go down to the root of the whole matter and to show the ultimate reason for the present political unrest. M uch of what I shall give to Western readers for the first time in this book has already been thoroughly discussed in India through pamphlets and articles which I have published. It has, therefore, already been put to the test in India, and has passed through a critical examination over there. It may be taken as representing a general Indian point of view.
