শাসকবর্গের ভারতবর্ষ সম্বন্ধীয় অপপ্রচারের কিঞ্চিৎ নমুনা দেন। “While we are quite indifferent to this question, missionaries and other civilizing agencies are not inactive for several decades. They have painted India as a land where widows are burnt, girls are married at the age of five or six and people are virtually unacquainted with the art of dressing. I remember vividly that, when I was in England in 1920, I was one day passing a lecture hall in front of which there was a pictorial advertisement of a lecture to be delivered by a missionary about India. In that advertisement, there were pictures of some half naked men and women of the blackest complexion, possessing the ugliest features. Ostensibly the lecturer wanted to raise funds for his ‘civilizing work’ in India and was, therefore, painting India in this light without the slightest compunction. Towards the end of 1933 a German journalist who claimed to have visited India recently, wrote in a Munich paper that she had seen, widows being burnt in India and dead bodies lying uncared for in the streets of Bombay. Recently in a Vienna pictorial paper (Wiener Bilder, dated the 30th June) a picture of a dead body covered with insects was printed and there was a footnote saying that it was the corpse of a Sadhu which could not be removed for several days because of the Hindu belief that the dead body of a
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