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“The other day I saw in an evening paper that Indians were called ​“invertebrates”. Rather good that, isn’t it? The Saturday Review, by the by, made a very wise remark a few weeks ago. It said that Indians were bound to have self-government but, — and herein lies the difficulty — not before a few aeons of geological time ! This may mean anything between a few million years and a wholly incomprehensible period. The chief difficulty was the want of education, and some million generations will be required to educate them up to the colonial standard”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru: Volumes II