India: Its Life and Thought
Chapter I India’s Unrest
India has been called the land of quiet repose, content to remain anchored to the hoary past, and proud of her immobility. Invasion after invasion has swept over her; but—
“The East bowed low before the blast,
In patient, deep disdain;
She let the legions thunder past,
And plunged in thought again.”
Yet this same India is now throbbing with discontent, and is breathing, in all departments of her life, a deep spirit of unrest. This spirit has recently become acute and seemed, for a while, in danger of bursting into open rebellion, not unlike the Mutiny of half a century ago.