British attitudes toward Indians shift from relative…

British attitudes toward Indians shift from relative openness to insularity and xenophobia, even against those with comparable background and achievement as well as loyalty.

British families and their servants live in cantonments at a distance from Indian settlements.

Private clubs where the British gather for social interaction become symbols of exclusivity and snobbery that will refuse to disappear decades after the British had left India

In 1883 the government of India attempts to remove race barriers in criminal jurisdictions by introducing a bill empowering Indian judges to adjudicate offenses committed by Europeans.

Public protests and editorials in the British press, however, force the viceroy, George Robinson, Marquis of Ripon (who serves from 1880 to 1884), to capitulate and modify the bill drastically.

The Bengali Hindu intelligentsia learn a valuable political lesson from this "white mutiny": the effectiveness of well-orchestrated agitation through demonstrations in the streets and publicity in the media when seeking redress for real and imagined grievances.