Is India Civilized? Bharata Shakti

Abstract

born resistance which India makes against Western innovations. And why should •She not, seeing that, rightly ^ or wrongly, the bulk of the ancient peoples of “the East have never admitted the moral superiority of Western civilization. Moreover Mr. Archer’s book was written before, though published during , the War, an event, which has, in so many ways, called that alleged superiority in question. ‘Since I wrote the above, the last book of the late sociologist Mr. Benjamin Kidd came to my hands. After citing with approval Mr. George Peel’s statement (“ The Future of England ” 169) that in Europe, History and Homicide are undistinguishable terms, and slating that the unfolding of the Christian Religion in the West has been an unparalelled record of fighting and slaughter, aiming at worldly triumph, he says that civilization has not yet arrived, for that 'of tke West “ is as yet scarcely more than glorified savagery *’ (120,121).