THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELFGOVERNMENT IN INDIA 1858-1914 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND LITERATURE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY BY CECIL MERNE PUTNAM CROSS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON THE MARUZEN-KABUSHIKI-KAISHA THE MISSION BOOK COMPANY THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF- A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND LITERATURE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY BY CECIL MERNE PUTNAM CROSS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY COPYRIGHT 1922 BY All Rights Reserved Published July 1922 Composed and Printed By PREFATORY NOTE The conviction that the political development of India was to be one of the most important problems before the world in the next twenty years, was the primary motive in undertaking the investigation of the development of self-government in India during the years from the mutiny to the outbreak of the world-war. The period since 1914 has been obscured by the censorship, propaganda, and misinformation to such an extent that partisanship, which has no place in such a treatise, has no means of being controlled or evaluated. This investigation has, therefore, been confined strictly to developing a background for a comprehension of the forces and movements at work in India. Since the war new figures, such as Ghandi, and new methods or modifications of methods, such as non-co-operation and the HinduMohammedan entente, have come, but at this date little essential alteration has been effected in the current of events, the outcome of which must be awaited with anxious concern not only by the British Empire but by the world at large. A personal debt of gratitude is owed to the courteous authorities of the University of Chicago Library, the Massachusetts State Library, the Columbia University Library, and the Library of Congress for their invaluable assistance in this work; and a still deeper obligation for the inspiration and assistance of the members of the faculty of the University of Chicago. |