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Introduction
'Mother India' is a book written by a famous North American critique in the name of Miss Mayo.It was published in 1927 by Jonathon Cape Ltd. in Britain and "Harcourt,Brace and Company" in the United States of America. Selections from Mother India edited by Mrinalini Sinha was originally published in 1988 by Kali for Woman Press,New Delhi.

Content of "Mother India"
This book is divided into five parts with different sub chapters. Mother India, is a novel which is described as a polemical attack against Indian self rule written by a U.S. author, Miss Katherine Mayo. This book has acquired something of 'Legendary Status' among students of colonial India and, in particular even women from India. However, this book was thought to be offensive by others. This book was considered offensive by radical Indian nationalists, including Mahatma Gandhi and Lala Lajpath Rai.

Pages of Offence
As said above, this book was also considered offensive by thousands of Indians. Lala Lajpath Rai, an Indian Radical Nationalist and freedom fighter seemed to have found it 'Most Offensive' of India. He went on to write a thousand page novel in the name of "Unhappy India" proving the statements Miss Katherine Mayo to be wrong in her statements. Another Indian nationalist Mohandas Gandhi stated that this book talked about 'the flip side of India' which seemed to to have only revealed only the dark side of the country. Miss Mayo wrote about the social problems faced in India mainly by the lower classes.

About the book
The book, 'Mother India' talks about the evils which were practiced in India at that time such as the social system of outcasting by caste, such as the 'Shudras'.Shudras were the lower class people who were treated as out-castes by the higher classes.Miss Katherine Mayo,in her book mentioned reasons to why the Indians deserved to be ruled by the British. She believed that the Indians lacked the ability rule over them selves and therefore they needed the aid of the British, and to bring law and order into the country.Most Indians believed this to be a false statement. India later on became to be the most democratic country in the world.