I Came across this description in a very interesting book called 'Modern India' by an American called Curtis, written in 1903. A third person unbiased view of India under the British rule at the turn of the twentieth century. I feel that the observation is still quite valid today - though I do feel that he used 'Hindu' as a generic term for Indian.
"... a Hindu immediately becomes a politician as soon as he is educated. It he does not succeed in obtaining an office he becomes an opponent of the government, and more or less of an agitator, according to his ability and ambitions."
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