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who resigned the governorship of the East Africa protector-
ate in July, 1912 — greatly regretted by the colonists.
In 1919-20 changes were made or authorized in the gov-
ernments of Kenya and Uganda, but the Governor is still the
dominating figure. The Governor of Uganda was empow-
ered to add unofficial members to his Executive and Legisla-
tive Councils, but has used the power only to add two un-
official members to the four officials who, with himself,
compose the Legislative Council.! The settlers in Kenya
have won the right to elect eleven members of the Legis-
lative Council. The Governor, however, appoints, on the
nomination of the local Indians and Arabs, two members to
represent the former and one the latter, and then appoints a
sufficient number of official members to give him a majority
in the decision of all legislative questions.
The presence of the Indian population in Kenya has
proved to be an especially serious obstacle in the path of the
white settlers in their efforts to reach self-government. The
Indians form an important part of the population of the col-
ony, as in East Africa generally. In 1921 they numbered
over 25,000 or nearly three times the white population.
They are the small traders, clerks, mechanics and laborers,
though the plantation owners employ natives except in some
lowland sugar plantations. A few Indian traders were found
in the coast cities decades ago, large numbers of Indians
were brought in as railway laborers, and the rest have fol-
lowed in the wake of the white pioneers. East Africa, there-
fore, has on its hands a double race problem, and the acute
difficulties arising from the part of this problem which con-
cerns the relations of the Indians and whites has recently re-
ceived the attention of the whole empire. The Indians have
been inclined to regard East Africa as a test of the attitude of
the British Empire toward them and their claims to equality,
1 Uganda Aninual Report for 1921. Brit. Parl. Papers, No. 1151, 1923,
