The Indian Village How to improve it

The problem of a country is the problem of its villages. Tell me how your villages are, and I will tell you how your country is. The prosperity of the village is the prospority of the country. John Bright says, the nation lives in the cottage. The few educated people with their borrowed but ill-suited fashions and noise on the platform and in the press, are not the whole nation. They are not solely the leaders that, they think, they are. It is the villager that mostly shapes the destinies of the nation. It is he that represents the true civilisation, the true character of the nation and not the English educated man who neither retains all that is best in the civilisation of his own country nor has assimilated what is best in the civilisation of the west.