ABSTRACT
It has been necessary to give at some length, through different illustrations, a picture of the times we are painfully passing through in India, times comparable only to some great religious and social revolution touching every side of human life and renewing the face of the earth. For it is just in relation to all this that the Commissioners who have given us the Simon Report have suffered a very grievous loss owing to the unfortunate conditions under which they went out. I f only it had been possible for them, under the right guidance, to have travelled as private persons, meeting Mahatma Gandhi himself in an entirely informal manner in his own Ashram and sharing the atmosphere in which his followers spend their lives, then their ideas about the future constitution of India would have been profoundly modified. For they would have seen all those inner social forces at work which escape the notice of the ordinary traveller and of the government official also.
