Personally I feel that there are only two ways of treating India; either we must look forward to the time when India will be in the position of one of the Dominions, and we must prepare for it gradually, looking forward say another 100 years; or the other way is to keep India entirely as a vassal state and keep it entirely under control. For this we shall want a very much larger army than we have now, and it seems hardly possible, having started to give the people a voice in the Government to retrace our steps. There is thus, in my opinion, no other course than to give the sons of the fighting class an opportunity of becoming officers; only those however who show they are morally and intellectually fit for such appointments...