Birth and parentage-Early education-Green- wich Royal Naval College-Naval Constructor- Attitude to Anglo-Germau War-Humanitarian soldier-His gallantry-Commander to Colonel, D. S. O.-Member, mission to Siberia-Assistant 17 The Mesopotamia Commission-Its Report on 29 CHAPTER V-Increasing interest in Interest in Indian affairs-War service and Indian Deputations-Interpellations in Commons re: Lajpat Rai, Land grants, Martial Law, etc. 46 CHAPTER VI-The Punjab atrocities 56 Agitation against Rowlatt Acts-Punjab atrocities CHAPTER VII-The Khilafat Question 79 Peace Treaty criticised-Attitude to Turkey-Self- 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 88 IX-Britain and India.... 102 Groups-Wedgwood's Committee-Prospects of CHAPTER X-From Liberal to 123 Labourite Wedgwood's Radical and Labour sympathies The Liberal Debacle-The Coalition's failings- X Reform The progress CHAPTER XII-Ceylon, Egypt and 185 Russia The Ceylon Reform Question-The Milner- and 166 CHAPTER XIII-Direct action Impotence of Parliament in foreign policy- CHAPTER XIV--Conclusion .... Resume of the foregoing--Wedgwood as a man 176 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. 66 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 |