"India under Ripon: A Private Diary" by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt is a book that describes the condition of Indian at the time of Lord Ripon's viceroyalty, which was in truth the awakening hour of the new movement towards liberty in India, the dawn of that day of unrest which is the necessary prelude to full self-assertion in every subject land.

The journey it records was made under circumstances of exceptional interest at an exceptional moment and should be instructive in view of what has happened since. It contains a foreshadowing of events that are under our eyes today and suggests a solution to problems which, after long waiting and with an act of timid courage, is gradually being accepted as official.