To censure of this sort, however, the State already lays itself open in India.

There are educational institutions--and some of the best, like the Mahomedan College at Aligurh--maintained by denominational communities on purpose to secure religious education.

Yet the State withdraws from them neither recognition nor assistance because pupils are taught to be good Mahomedans or good Hindus.

Why should it be wrong to make religious instruction permissive in other Indian schools which are not wholly or mainly supported by private endeavour?
Is not the "harmonious combination of secular and religious instruction" for which the Maharajah of Jaipur pleads better calculated than our present policy of _laisser faire_ to refine and purify Indian religious conceptions, and to bring about that approximation of Eastern to Western ideals, towards which the best Indian minds were tending before the present revolt against Western ascendency?
Here is surely a question bound up with all the main-springs of Indian life in which we may be rightly asked "to govern according to Indian ideas." Can we expect that the youth of India will grow up to be law-abiding citizens if we deprive them of what their parents hold to be "the keystone to the formation of character"?
Can we close our eyes to what so many responsible Indians regard as one of the chief causes of the demoralization which has crept into our schools and colleges?
The State can, doubtless, exact in many ways more loyal co-operation from Indian teachers in safeguarding their pupils from the virus of disaffection.

It can, for instance, intimate that it will cease to recruit public servants from schools in which sedition is shown to be rife.