Excerpt from The Governance of India: As It Is and as It May Be; A Hand-Book of Progressive Politics
This short book has a long history behind it. In the very earliest years of the Indian National Congress, I spoke to Mr. A. O. Hume about the desirability of preparing a series of handbooks, something like Sir Henry Craik"s series on "The English Citizen - His Rights and Responsibilities," which, while describing the actual ad ministration of the country in its different departments, would also enlighten the Indian citizen as to its dark spots and suggest ways for their removal - in short, a series which would help to qualify the public to become rationally articulate and to avoid mere declamation and vague generalities. The suggestion could not be taken up at the time, and for many years afterwards, my own very limited energies were taken up by educational and social activities. Rut though put aside for the time being, the idea was not given up by me.
Nearly twenty years ago, in my leisure moments, I sketched out a rough syllabus for a work on the Indian Government, and circulated it among a few friends, in the hope that some would be willing to take up at least some parts of it. But my hopes were not fulfilled. As a last resource, I began to fill up the syllabus myself. But my chronic ill-health would not allow of ray devoting the time necessary to compile it while also engaged in the work of the Central Hindu College which was founded in Benares, about the same time, by a dozen "idealists," with Mrs. Besant as the leading exponent and worker, and which absorbed all my little energies.
In connection with that movement, I wrote a book on Hinduism, which had a fairly large circulation.
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