India -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1947; India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947; India -- Social conditions
would be employed only as stenographers, postmen, grammar school
teachers, and street car conductors, and then only at starvation wages.
Buddhism would be made the state religion of America. What would any
self-respecting American say if all this were done to his country?
What would he do when his children and his grandchildren raised a cry
against the injustice done to their country and its manhood, and this
cry was drowned by the declaration of the Japanese imperialists that
Japan was carrying the Yellow Man’s burden in the United States of
America.
The feeling of a deep and passionate resentment felt by the people
of India regarding these matters was expressed by the late Mr. G. K.
Gokhale thus:
“A kind of dwarfing or stunting of the Indian race is going
on under the present system. We must live all our lives in an
atmosphere of inferiority, and the tallest of us must bend, in
order that the exigencies of the system may be satisfied. The
upward impulse, if I may use such an expression, which every
schoolboy at Eton or Harrow may feel, that he may one day be a
Gladstone, a Nelson, or a Wellington, and which may draw forth
the best efforts of which he is capable, that is denied to us.
The height to which our manhood is capable of rising can never
be reached by us under the present system. The moral elevation
which every Self-Governing people feel, cannot be felt by us.
Our administrative and military talents must gradually disappear
owing to sheer disuse, till at last our lot, as hewers of wood and
drawers of water in our own country, is stereotyped.”
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