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CHAPTER

V-Increasing interest in
India

Interest in Indian affairs-War service and Indian

Deputations-Interpellations

in Commons re:

Lajpat Rai, Land grants, Martial Law, etc.

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CHAPTER

VI-The Punjab atrocities

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Agitation against Rowlatt Acts-Punjab atrocities
-Debate on Hunter Report-Goal of British
policy in India.

CHAPTER VII-The Khilafat Question

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Peace Treaty criticised-Attitude to Turkey-Self-
determication and fair-play.

CHAPTER VIII-The Indian Budget..... Nature of the Budget Debates-And early Debate -Wedgwood on Indian Policy-Provincial finance under reforms-Indian Budget scientifically criticised-Appeal for financial autonomy.

CHAPTER

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IX-Britain and India.... 102
The Proclamation of Announcement of August
1917-The Montford Report-Franchise and Com-
munal representation-Dyarchy-Parliamentary

Groups-Wedgwood's Committee-Prospects of
Reform surveyed.

CHAPTER

X-From

Liberal to 123

Labourite

Wedgwood's Radical and Labour sympathies

The Liberal Debacle-The Coalition's failings-
Labour's rise-Attitude to Labour.

X

Reform

The progress
of the Reform Bill-Speech on
procedure and the Bill in the Commons-Wedg-
wood's opposition to procedure, franchise and
powers-In the Committee Stage: amendments-
Third reading of the Bill-Tribute to Montagu :
Politician 08. Agitator-Reactionary Rules-
Wedgwood's opposition in Commons-His numer-
ous amendmsuts-The triumph of the bureaucracy
-Wedgwood's disappointment.

CHAPTER XII-Ceylon, Egypt and 185

Russia

The Ceylon Reform Question-The Milner-
Manning Scheme-Wedgwood's opposition to
defects-The Egyptian Problem-The Martial Law
atrocities Plea for freedom within the Empire-
The Russian Revolution-British interference-
Wedgwood's protest.

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CHAPTER XIII-Direct action
Non-co-operation.

Impotence of Parliament in foreign policy-
Coalition high-haudedness and contempt for
Parliament-The Departmental ascendency-
Country's indignation and belplessness--Labour's
Council of Action-Wedgwood's defence of it-
Its relation to Non-co-operation-Wedgwood on
Non-co-operation.

CHAPTER XIV--Conclusion

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Resume of the foregoing--Wedgwood as a man
and Parliamentarian-A born fighter for justice
-A great friend of India and of the oppressed
everywhere-His philosophy of life, that of
Henry George, Tolstoy and Gandhi-Conclusion.

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FOREWORD

I have known Colonel Wedgwood personally for the last three years. But even before I met him I felt that he was a friend. We became friends without knowing each other personally. He read my book "Young India" and formed his opinion of me. That opinion he expressed in the foreword, which, in response to a request made to him by the Home Rule for India League" of London, he wrote for the English edition of the book. Before I read that foreword, I knew nothing about the English edition, nor about Colonel Wedgwood, but a reading of the foreword convinced me that he was a friend.

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The opinion that I formed of him has been confirmed by subsequent events. India has no more sincere, devoted and truer friend in the British Isles than Colonel Wedgwood. He befriends India because he hates tyranny, oppression and injustice and loves liberty and freedom. He is a friend of India because India is being unjustly oppressed by alien people even though that people happen to be his own. He works for India because he believes that by working for India he is advancing the cause of human liberty and real democracy. He is opposed to Imperialism and Capitalism, yet he hates none. He is a thinker

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