THE INDIAN MOHAMMEDANS AND LORD MORLEY'S REFORMS.
[To TUN EDITOR Or TRIO " SPROTATOR."
Sin,—In your issue of January 30th, in an article beaded "Time Indian Mohammedans and Lord Morley's Reforms," Commenting upon my letter on the same subject published in the Times a few days ago, you have remarked that "there
is a note of menace in the manner in which the inferiority of the Mohanunedaus in respect to 'want of enterprise," back- wardness in education,' and 'want of organisation' is insisted on by Mr. Lajpat Rai." May I ask your permission to explain that the expressions quoted are not mine ? They have been used either by Mohammedan gentlemen themselves, or by those who are espousing their cause in the English Press. I have not made, and do not make, any statement about the inferiority of the Mohammedans in any of those respects. All I said was that these grounds could not be legitimately urged for a higher representation being given to the Mohammedans than what they are entitled to by virtue of their numbers.—Hoping you will do me the favour of publishing this letter, I am,
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