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any class of Bengalis more manly, it is, we may hope,
encouraging the growth of this amongst other virtues.
For a Bengali it is something to have begun to talk in
grandiloquent English about patriotism, and manliness, and
courage. Even the academic admiration of such things is
perhaps a mark of progress. The people generally are
acute and intelligent, patient and industrious, and when
they get more knowledge they may become more selfreliant,
 less timid, and less helpless against wrong.” Unfortunately
 these are the people whose purely intellectual
progress under English encouragement have brought them
‘nto prominent notice by reason of their capacity to
advertise what they believe to be their “national” grievances.
 The people of India, as a whole, are undoubtedly
loyal to the British Government. Such sedition as exists
is fostered by the so-called educated classes, who regard
agitation as a recognised way to obtain notoriety, and a
possible means of earning a livelihood.
I have often been asked what place is taken by the
Eurasian amongst the social communities of India ; and
[ have often thought that but scant justice is done to an
intelligent, sober, and industrious class which furnishes
the material from which all the smaller wheels and springs
of the Government machine are fashioned. Without the
Eurasian element that machine would be most seriously
disjointed, and it would be exceedingly difficult to find
any other material so excellently well suited, to replace
the Eurasian in its complicated structure.
When Europeans and natives intermarry the result is
Eurasian, so that not only the English, but Portuguese,
Dutch, Danish, and French have all contributed to the
Eurasian stock of India, and are to be recognised in the
names of their descendants. Da Souza, Almeida, Fonesca,
Corneille are common enough in the west and south
of India, and are probably borne rightly enough by their
owners. Such names as Claudius or Cornelius betray a
desire to conceal the true patronymic, which savours of
the bar sinister. The last census returns of the number
nf Eurasians in India is 79,800, but this can be only an