Yet what could we do, how change this vicious process? We seemed to be helpless in the grip of some ad-powerful monster; our limbs were paralysed, our minds deadened. The peasantry were servile and fear-ridden; the industrial workers were no better. The middle classes, the intelligentsia, who might have been beacon-lights in the enveloping darkness, were themselves submerged in this ad-pervading gloom.
How could this happen. How did Indian society reach this level of degradation that was not even able to rise up against such exploitation? In a healthy society a revolt against a couple hundered thousand British would have been spontaneous.
