ABSTRACT
Y o u n g I n d i a would be the first to blame me if I gave merely what might be called an apologetic or laudatory account of Indian moral character without speaking the truth about the very serious evils which have sapped in the past the national life and still do serious mischief. These evils are often very different from those which hostile critics have placarded in the West. Let us face them together, as far as I have been able to see them, with a critical but kindly eye.
