John Morley: “But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.”

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.