During Lord Ripon’s liberal viceroyalty the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt toured India, meeting Hindu and Muslim leaders, princes and officials. His diary records the stirring of Indian national feeling, which he calls the awakening hour of the movement towards liberty, alongside his running quarrel with Downing Street and the Foreign Office over Egypt.
A rare British voice sympathetic to Indian self-government in the 1880s, for readers of imperial and South Asian history. Download the free EPUB.