Excerpt from Topics for Indian Statesmen

In editing this book it is my desire to take on myself the responsibility of any errors that may have occurred. I feel the very great disadvantage my brother labours under in being unable to see his work through the press, many additional illustrative facts which he has sent to me have arrived too late for insertion, and in any case where doubt has arisen it has been impossible to refer to him. For many years Mr. Norton has been endeavouring to rouse, in the words of Lord William Bentinck, "the shameful apathy and indifference of England to the concerns of India." Hoping against hope, he has continued to write with this object. His last book, the "Rebellion in India, " has never yet been answered, and why? Because it is unanswerable. It has suited those who are interested in keeping India in its present state of darkness to ignore that book.

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