Summarise the prose India Through a Traveller's Eyes. Or, Write the summary of India Through a Traveller's Eyes.
Ans. India had always been part of the background of my life, but I had
never scen it whole and for myself until new. Yet the stories that our Indian
family doctor and his wife told me when I was child had woven themselves into
my growing dreams, and I had long read everything that I could find about that
country-from my father I had learned of it through Budhhism and the life history
of the Lord Buddha. What did I go to India to see ? Not the Taj Mahal, although
I did see it and by moonlight, not Fatehpur Sikri, although I did see it, and not the
glories of empire in New Delhi, although I did see them. I want to India to see
and listen to two groups of people, the young intellectuals in the cities and the
peasants in the villages. These I met in little rooms in the city, in little houses in
the villages, and I heard their plans for freedom. Already the intellectuals believed
that another world war was inevitable. They had been bitterly disappointed after
the first world war be what they felt were the broken promises of England. The
English, they declared, had no real purpose to restore India to the people. I could
believe it fresh as I was from China. Where the period of people's Tutelage
seemed endless and self government further offevery year. When you are ready
for independence, conquerours have always said to their subjects, etcetera ! But
who is to decide when that moment comes and how can people learn to govern
themselves except by doing it?
So the intellectuals in india were Restless and embittered, and I sat though
hours watching their plashing dark eyes and.
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