Excerpt from Is India Civilized?: Essays on Indian Culture The question which forms the title of this book is of course absurd. Even the most antipathetic or igrant would admit that India has a civilization (as he would say) of sorts. There is an acute difference as to the value of it. The question however is t mine but is raised by Mr. Wm. Archer, a literary and dramatic critic of te in his recent book India and the Future. He finds India as a whole to be in the state of Barbarism.What does it matter if he does say so, said an Indian to me, adding this is only the last of a long list of misunderstanding works abusive of our country and its culture. That is so, though the number is increasing w-a-days of those who respect both. Yet this indifferent attitude is a mistake. India cant at the present moment allow any charges against her to go unanswered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.