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Facts and Opinions
Volume I - Nov.
13, 1909 - Number 19
House-Searches
One wonders what would happen in any
European country if the police as a recompense for their utter inefficiency and
detective incapacity were armed with the power and allowed to use it freely of
raiding the houses of respectable citizens, ransack the property of absent
occupants and leaving it unsafe and unprotected, carrying off the business
books of Presses, newspapers and other commercial concerns, the private letters
of individuals, books publicly sold and procurable in every bookshop, violating
the sanctity of correspondence between wife and husband, searching the per
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Passing Thoughts
Volume I - Feb.
19, 1910 - No. 33
The
Bhagalpur Literary Conference
The prevalence of
annual conferences in the semi-Europeanised
life of Bengal is a curious phenomenon eloquent of the unreality of our present
culture and the inefficiency of our modernised existence. Our old life was
well, even minutely organised on an intelligent and consistent Oriental model.
The modern life of Europe is well and largely organised on an intelligent and
consistent Occidental model. It materialises certain main ideas of life and
well-being, provides certain centres of life, equips them efficiently, serves
the object with which they are institu
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The Hughly Resolutions
WE PUBLISH
in this issue the draft resolutions of the Hughly Reception Committee which have reached
our hands in a printed form. Formerly our information had
been that the Committee had based its resolutions on the Pabna
Conference resolutions and preserved them in the spirit if not in
the letter. We regret to find that this information was erroneous.
While appreciating the labours of the Committee we cannot
pretend to be satisfied at the result. The letter of the Pabna resolutions has
been preserved in a few cases and their manly and dignified character contrasts strangely with the company in which
they are found, but for the most part the m
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Facts and Opinions
Volume I - Jan.
22, 1910 - Number 29
Lajpatrai's
Letters
The case of Parmanand, the Arya Samaj teacher, whom with a singular
pusillanimity the D.A.V. College authorities
have dismissed before anything was proved against him, has been of more than
usual interest because of the parade with which Lajpatrai's letters to him were
brought forward. The letters were innocent enough on the face of them, but prejudice
and suspicion were deliberately manufactured out of the connection with Krishnavarma, the expression
"revolutionary", the use of the word "boys", and an
anticipation of the agrarian outbreak in connection with the Punja
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A Thing that Happened
IT IS
not the policy of the Karmayogin
to dwell on incidents whether of the present administration of the country or of the relations between the ruling
caste and the people. To criticise persistently the frequent instances of highhandedness
and maladministration inevitable under a regime like the present does not lead
to the redress of grievances; all that it
does is to create a prejudice against the reigning bureaucracy. The basis of
our claim to Swaraj is not that the English bureaucracy is a bad or tyrannical
Government; a bureaucracy is always inclined to be arrogant, self-sufficient,
self-righteous and unsympathetic, to ignore the abuses wi
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Creed and Constitution
THE
attempt to
bring about the unity of the two parties in Bengal as a preliminary to the
holding of an United Congress has split on the twin rocks of creed and
constitution. We will place before the country as succinctly as possible the
issues which were posited during the negotiations and state clearly the
Nationalist attitude, leaving it to Bengal to judge between us and the
upholders of the Convention's creed and constitution. We ask our countrymen to
consider whether the concessions we made were not large and substantial and the
single concession offered to us worthless and nugatory, whether the
reservations we made were not justifiable an
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The Viceroy's Speech
THE speech of Lord Minto on the occasion of
the first meeting of the Viceroy's Council under
the new regime is a very important pronouncement;
and the most momentous of the passages in the pronouncement are two, the one in
which he disposes finally of any lingering hopes in the minds of the Moderates,
the other in which he threatens to dispose finally of any lingering hopes in
the minds of the Nationalists. It has been a Moderate legend which still labours to survive, that the intention of Lords Morley
and Minto in the Reforms was to lay the foundations of representative
self-government in India. This legend was perseveringly
reiterated in direct co
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To My Countrymen
TWO
decisive incidents have happened which make it compulsory on the Nationalist
Party to abandon their attitude of reserve and expectancy and once more assume
their legitimate place in the struggle for Indian liberties. The Reforms, so
long trumpeted as the beginning of a new era of constitutional progress in
India, have been thoroughly revealed to the public intelligence by the
publication of the Councils' Regulations and the results of the elections
showing the inevitable nature and composition of the new Councils. The
negotiations for the union of Moderates and Nationalists in an United Congress
have failed owing to the insistence of the former on the
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Facts and Opinions
Volume I - Jan.
1, 1910 - Number 26
The
Perishing Convention
The
Convention has met at Lahore and the fact that it could meet at all, has
been hailed as a great triumph by the Anglo-Indian Press. But the success of
this misbegotten body in avoiding immediate extinction has only served to show
the marks of decay in every part of its being, and the loud chorus of eulogies
streaming up from Anglo-India will not help to prolong its days. The miserable
paucity of its numbers, the absence of great ovations to its leaders, the
surroundings of stifling coldness, indifference and disapproval in the midst
of which its orators perorat
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The Right of Association*
MY
FRIEND Pandit Gispati Kavyatirtha has somewhat shirked today
his duty as it was set down for him in the programme and left it to me. I hope
you will not mind if I depart a little from the suggestion he has made to me. I
would like, instead of assuming the role of a preacher and telling you your
duties which you know well enough yourselves, to take, if you will allow me, a
somewhat wider subject, not unconnected with it but of a wider range. In
addressing you today I wish to say a few words about the general right of
association especially as we have practised and are trying to practise it in
India today. I choose this subject for