India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt is a book that describes the
condition of Indian at the time of Lord Ripon's viceroyalty which was in truth the awakening
hour of the new movement towards liberty in India the dawn of that day of unrest which is the
necessary prelude to full self-assertion in every subject land. The journey it records was made
under circumstances of exceptional interest at an exceptional moment and should be instructive
in view of what has happened since. It contains a foreshadowing of events that are under our
eyes today and suggests a solution to problems which after long waiting and with an act of
timid courage is gradually being accepted as official.
