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Page 21 - It may be that the public mind of India may expand under our system till it has outgrown that system; that by good government we may educate our subjects into a capacity for better government; that, having become instructed in European knowledge, they may, in some future age, demand European institutions.
Page 13 - Enormous fortunes were thus rapidly accumulated at Calcutta, while thirty millions of human beings were reduced to the extremity of wretchedness. They had been accustomed to live under tyranny, but never under tyranny like this.
Page 263 - In view of the pronouncement of President Wilson, Mr. Lloyd George, and other British statesmen, that to ensure the future peace of the world, the principle of self-determination should be applied to all progressive nations.
Page 227 - Curzon's Administration Gentlemen, how true it is that to everything there is an end ! Thus even the Viceroyalty of Lord Curzon has come to a close ! For seven long years all eyes had constantly to turn to one masterful figure in the land — now in admiration, now in astonishment, more often in anger and in pain, till at last it has become difficult to realize that a change has really come.
Page 186 - A kind of dwarfing or stunting of the Indian race is going on under the present system. We must live all the days of our life in an atmosphere of inferiority, and the tallest of us must bend, in order that the exigencies of the existing system, may be satisfied. The upward impulse, if I may use such an expression, which every schoolboy at Eton or Harrow may feel...
Page 29 - I say, be united, persevere and achieve self-government, so that the millions now perishing by poverty, famine and plague, and the scores of millions that are starving on scanty subsistence may be saved, and India may once more occupy her proud position of yore among the greatest and civilized nations of the world.
Page 227 - For a parallel to such an administration, we must, I think, go back to the times of Aurangzeb in the history of our own country. There we find the same attempt at a rule excessively centralized and intensely personal, the same strenuous purpose, the same overpowering consciousness of duty, the same marvellous capacity for work, the same sense of loneliness, the same persistence in a policy of distrust and repression, resulting in bitter exasperation all round.
Page 145 - Mr MB Chaubal signed the Report, but dissented from some of its most important recommendations. The whole Report was written "before the flood", and it is now merely an antiquarian curiosity. India, for all these reasons, was forced to see before her a future of perpetual subordination : the Briton rules in Great Britain, the Frenchman in France, the American in America, each Dominion in its own area, but the Indian was to rule nowhere; alone among the peoples of the world, he was not to feel his...
Page 134 - ... neighbours the huge domains of a Tsar and a Chinese despot, and compares her condition under British rule with those of their subject populations. British rule profited by the comparison, at least until 1905, when the great period of repression set in. But in future, unless India wins SelfGo vernment, she will look enviously at her Self-Governing neighbours, and the contrast will intensify her unrest.
Page 173 - When the editor of an extremist newspaper was prosecuted for sedition, convicted and sentenced, 500 Bengali women went to his mother to show their sympathy, not by condolences but by congratulations. Such was the feeling of the well-born women of Bengal. The Indentured Labour question, involving the dishonour of women, again moved them deeply and, even sent a deputation to the Viceroy composed of women. These were, perhaps, the chief outer causes; but deep in the heart of India's daughters arose...