India and the Empire
A public meeting was held last evening in the Lawley Hall under the auspices of the St. Joseph’s College Union, Rev. Fr. P. Carty, S.J. presiding. Mr. S.K. Sarma, B.A., B.L., delivered an interesting lecture on “India and the Imperial Movement.” In the course of his lecture he said that the subject on which he proposed to address them was one engaging the anxious consideration of many statesmen. A few years ago an organisation had been started in England which appeared to have wide ramification all over the Empire with a view to devising schemes for making what in the words of Adam Smith was a project of Empire into the reality of an Empire. Recently the Secretary of that organisation, called the “Round Table” movement, visited India to obtain knowledge about the country and to find out what place should be given to it in the future Imperial organisation. But in his “Problems of the Commonwealth” he had indicated the respective position of the Colonies and the Dependencies in the British Empire. The problem was not a new one.
