Asiatic Quarterly Review (Full Title: The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review, and Oriental and Colonial Record): Volume XIII, No. 26 [‎522r] (168/238)

Proceedings of the East India Association. 381
when he went to Cambridge that he received an education in its broadest
terms. He feared those who had only received an Indian education had
not all the advantages which an English education naturally could give.
He believed most of the success which had been achieved by Indian
people in India was due to»the fact that they had come in contact with
Europeans, whose ideas and views they had indirectly acquired, and he
thought it would be a calamity to India if the examination were confined
altogether to India.
Mr. Nilkant VVagle had no objection to make to the views expressed
by Mr. Pennington. Every Indian must feel very much obliged for the
noble sentiments which had been expressed at that meeting. There was
an Indian saying : “ If you have not got a lump of sugar to give me, have
not you a word as sweet as sugar?” An Indian was always satisfied with
a sweet word as well as with a lump of sugar. The Proclamation of the
Sovereign had been referred to which said that any Indian subject would
be admitted into the Service without distinction of race or creed, and
Mr. Pennington had qualified that Proclamation by quoting Lord Lytton
and Sir Robert Peel; but in his opinion the Sovereign had given a
promise, and no man in the kingdom could overrule the promise of the
Sovereign. He took objection to the rule that candidates must be of
European birth, not only with regard to the Indian Service, but with
regard to the Service in this country. Let them both be subject to the
same tests and the best man get the post. The Proclamation never was
intended to go further than to say that all appointments should be open
to British subjects. Mr. Naoroji thought the pledges in the Proclamations
were given with all sincerity, and that the British people were perfectly
prepared to fulfil them. He (Mr. Wagle) was of opinion that the journey
to England was necessary, because the whole machinery of the Indian
Government was on a Western model, and it would be desirable that he
should in person have experience of the working of that machinery. With
regard to Indian education, many Indians of the highest position and
attainments had never been to England, and he maintained that educa
tion could be completed as well in India as in England. It, of course,
depended on the individual.
Dr. Ince welcomed the change that had taken place in the opinions of
men entitled to the highest respect as to the extension of the native
element. Why should not the natives of India govern their own country ?
Had not the natives of India proved themselves to be as clever and as intel
lectual as the Japanese? What would be thought of any European country
which desired to introduce a European Government into Japan ? China
was almost in the same position ; but it was the first Article in the British
Creed that they were sent to India to train the people for their own self-
government, and the destiny of the British nation was to retire when that
was done, and he hoped they would retire as honourably as did the
Romans from Britain. (No, no.)
Mr. Coldstream thought that the coming of young natives to England
for education was a subject of great importance. It was one to which he
had devoted much attention, and which might well engage the attention of