ABSTRACT
The real impetus came when thinking Indians, while conscious of the good Britain had done, began to put more emphasis on her short-comings and to be impatient of the slow rate of political progress. Friendships between Englishmen and Indians were in many cases dissolved and the two communities became estranged—a process which to a lesser extent was repeated in the days of the terrorist and civil disobedience movements in Bengal seventy years later. Two developments made this new approach possible. The first of these was the general deterioration of relations between Englishmen and Indians in and after the middle of the century, while the second was the Indian reaction against the earlier glorification of Western ideals and institutions. Some authorities have asserted that women are more prone to race prejudice than men and that the presence of large numbers of Englishwomen in India has been an unfortunate factor in this respect.
