Mayo, Miss : Katherine Mayo (1867-1940): American political writer. Supporting the claim that America belonged to descendants of white Anglo-Saxons of England, she advocated American White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Nativism, opposed non-white & Catholic immigration to USA & emancipated African-Americans & questioned the Philippine Declaration of Independence passed by US Govt. on racist & religious grounds. In 1927, published her tract Mother India attacking Hindu society & culture for its treatment of women & lowers castes, & describing Hindus as uncivilised & dirty given to masturbation, rape, homosexuality, prostitution, venereal diseases, early sexual intercourse leading to premature maternity, & hence not deserving freedom from British rule. Her book was welcomed & propagated by racists & imperialists in Britain & America, & her claims were published by the British Indian authorities as a counter-measure to growing sympathies for the Indian freedom movement. In response to Mayo’s book an Indian-American Dalip Singh Saund wrote My Mother India. As late as 1940s, Mayo’s tract was the prescribed text on India & Indians for cadets at West Point, U.S. Military Academy, as found by Dr. Kunzru, a veteran legislator of India, when he visited that academy. [Durga Das, India-From Curzon to Nehru & After, London, 1969]
... without fear, he stung them relentlessly into consciousness of guilt. He was no flatterer: he did not play up to his audience: he was a just and bold critic of India. Even about the scurrillous book by Miss Mayo he said that it was a book Englishmen should put out of their minds but Indians must take to heart, for though it was in many respects a malicious exaggeration with not half a glance to spare for ...
... such things should not be done often. What do you say? I can swallow with some difficulty, but if anybody Page 637 tried to justify by it a line like this (let us say in a poem to Miss Mayo): I would buck. I disapprove totally of Abercrombie's bold wriggle with Heaven, but even he surely never meant to put the accent on the second syllable and pronounce it . I absolutely refuse ...
... in a common context: e.g. "from out the bed". Sri Aurobindo: I can swallow 'perspective' with some difficulty, but if anybody tried to justify by it a line like this (let us say in a poem by Miss Mayo): O inspector, why suggestive of drains? I would buck. I disapprove totally of Abercrombie's bold wriggle with Heaven, but even he surely never meant to put the accent on the second ...
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