Who are India’s Real Leaders?

REFERRING to the manifesto issued by Mrs. Besant and a number of other distinguished Indian leaders, the Civil and Military Gazette writes:- "Apart from this one would like to know who gives this handful of politicians the right to speak for India, and to make India's support of the Empire's cause conditional on the grant of impossible demands. Such a slur on India's loyalty and good sense will be repudiated with the indignation it merits by India's real leaders and spokesmen." We have refrained from expressing any opinion on the manifesto so far, but that does not preclude our asking who really are the real leaders and spokesmen of India for whom the Gazette speaks. For the rest, we have hitherto been under the impression that all the real leaders and spokesmen of India are pledged to support the Congress-League scheme. But the Gazette perhaps knows better than ourselves who are or are not our leaders.