A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 90
90 all. The Bengalis had tried every possible means to get the partition cancelled, but all their efforts had been in vain, and they had now determined to annoy and obstruct the Government. The wisest political leaders of the country had declared that although Government had made a mistake, the partition of Bengal was a settled fact, and it was useless further to agitate against it. When this prophecy was published some Bengali papers went so far as to ridicule the Promised Messiah on his presumptuousness in suggesting that that which the Bengalis had despaired of accomplishing would after all come about. But God’s ways are inscrutable. Contrary to the hopes of the Bengalis and the intentions of the Government, He told His prophet that the Bengalis would be consoled. Even after this revelation was published, this question was repeatedly brought before Parliament and Government was requested over and again to cancel its previous order, but Government steadily refused to re-consider the question and the then Secretary of State for India, Lord Crewe, who was destined subsequently to fulfil this revelation, definitely stated in Parliament that this order could not be cancelled. But God, in order to fulfil His words, so arranged matters, that on the occasion of the accession to throne of Your Royal and Imperial Father, our Gracious Sovereign, a proposal was put forward that His Majesty’s Coronation as the Emperor of India, should take place in India. Thus He selected His Majesty to fulfil His words with his own mouth. The concessions granted to India on the occasion of His