The British Raj was a vocal critic of the League of Nations.
 Prominent among the extremists was Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who attempted to mobilise Indians by appealing to an explicitly Hindu political identity, displayed, for example, in the annual public Ganapati festivals that he inaugurated in western India
 Much of the debate took place in Britain itself, and the imperialists worked hard to convince the general population that the civilising mission was well under-way

