India for Indians: Enlarged EditionDas, Chitta Ranjan
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India for Indians: Enlarged Edition
Das, Chitta Ranjan
India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947
If this is not showing contempt for the Government I do not know what
contempt is. This is not all: there is an alarming fact expressed in
some of these speeches. Some of the speakers have stated that the civil
servants and the military officers are entirely in sympathy with them
in their resistance to any kind of self-government being granted to
this country.
ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE CIVIL AND MILITARY SERVICES WITH ANGLO-INDIANS?
Gentlemen, I shall place before you one passage from the speech of Mr.
Carter and another from the speech of Sir A. W. Binning.
Mr. Carter says:--
"I appeal, therefore, to the Government on behalf of all Europeans
whether engaged in trade and commerce or serving in Government
employment.... I assure the Government that they are here in spirit."
Gentlemen, the Civil Servants were present in spirit at this meeting
according to the statement of Mr. Carter! (Laughter).
And the other speaker says this:--
"Our claims, as put forward at present, will have the silent, but none
the less effective, support of the Indian Civil Service and Military
officers whose lot is cast in this country and who equally with us,
view with grave apprehension the measures which we fear, on effort will
be made to force on us."
Now, gentlemen that is absolutely startling. For myself, I refuse to
believe this. I refuse to believe that the members of the civil service
and the military officers who are servants of the King should so far
forget themselves that they should express their sympathy with these
Anglo-Indian agitators, express their views to them against the policy
which has been declared by His Majesty's Government. I say, I refuse to
believe this because if it were true, it discloses an alarming state
of things. It shows this: that whatever the policy of the British
Government may be, whatever the policy and the declaration of His
Majesty's Government may be, His Majesty's servants in India may so
combine and may so actively oppose people who stand up for that policy
as perhaps to render that policy nugatory. I say, if it is true, it
discloses an alarming state of things and I hope the Government will
take note of the speeches and make an enquiry into this and if there is
any truth in this statement, I ask the Government why should they allow
their own servants to so conduct themselves as to represent unnecessary
opposition to the declared policy of the Government, (Hear hear).
WHAT IS ANGLO-INDIANS CLAIM
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