ABSTRACT
It has almost become an axiom with a certain class of statesmen in the West that India has no cohesion of its own, and that only the might of the British arm prevents an immediate disruption from taking place. India, they tell us, is a sub-continent rather than an organized nation. It is, they say, merely made up of a conglomeration of races and tribes and peoples, which have never been welded together into a single whole. It has, they often repeat, more than one hundred and forty different languages, and its religions are so diverse and contradictory that the people would literally tear one another to pieces if once the strong arm of British rule were with drawn.
