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
"The British people have a temper of their own. Some people call
them a stubborn and a stiff-necked race. They are, I believe, a fair
and a just people. You can without difficulty reason with them, you
can without difficulty excite their interest, excite their sympathy
and above all, you can excite their gratitude. But they are people,
believe me, who resent, perhaps more deeply than any other people on
this earth any suspicion that anybody is bent upon making an attempt to
take advantage of them when their backs are against the wall."
Therefore, gentlemen, what does it come to? We must consider that
wicked capacity of the German people who are for ever on their watch
to find out a flaw in the constitution of this country. You must also
regard the temperament of the British nation, who will be angry if you
want your rights at this juncture, but the only people whose interests
and whose sentiments are to be set at naught are the Indian people
(Shame). We are not men! We are not a race! Our feeling need not be
considered--our sentiments are nothing! Our feelings must be those of
our masters. We must feel to order and suppress our real feelings!
(Shame).
NOT OBEDIENCE TO THE BUREAUCRACY BUT LOYALTY TO THE EMPIRE.
Well, gentlemen, I must say that I have read this part of His
Excellency's speech with considerable pain. It is the duty of the
Government, here, to consult and to consider the sentiments of the
people. The people of this country are loyal to the Empire. They may
not like the bureaucracy and they do not. And the British Cabinet
has declared that the people are not wrong when they say that the
Bureaucracy has mismanaged matters. They do not like the Bureaucracy,
and for sufficient reasons; but they are loyal to the Empire. Again,
my earnest appeal to the Government is: "Take care, do not disregard
the people's sentiments. Do not wish to substitute obedience to the
Bureaucracy in place of the people's loyalty to the Empire. The people
of this country are impatient and they will not bear it."
"For God's sake let this be the last chapter in the story of the great
denial." (Loud Cheers).
ADVICE TO STUDENTS.
_There was a huge meeting of students of Bangabashi and Ripon colleges
on the 14th January 1921, at Mirzapur Park, when Mr. Das said_:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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