First Published May 1940
AUTHOR’S NOTE
Books on political subjects are invari- ably pro or anti something: this is no exception. It is not, however, “ pro- British ” and “ anti-Indian,” or vice versa. Readers will findi the views ex- pressed here agreeable or provocative to them, regardless of their nationality. As for the facts, I have endeavoured to state them without evasion and after a careful study of the relevant authori- ties. I may be allowed to say that the things I am consciously pro are food and freedom for the millions who are to-day deprived of them; by the same token, the only things I am anti are the systems and institutions which appear to be the cause of such deprivation, whether they are Indian, or British, or Indian and British in character.
April 5, 1940
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