[Abundant materials, enough to make a second -volume, are available to demonstrate that Hindu leaders of the twentieth century are pursuing the same suicidal policy as the ancient Brahmans, and freedom and democracy are in as great danger in the India of to-day as ever in the past. A detailed treatment of this aspect must be left over for another occasion. The appendices added to this second edition, however, serve to give the reader an idea of .the gravity of the present situation.]