Bande Mataram
CONTENTS
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Part One Writings and a Resolution 1890 1906 |
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India and the British Parliament
The Proposed Reconstruction of Bengal On the Bengali and the Mahratta Resolution at a Swadeshi Meeting |
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Part Two Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Bipin Chandra Pal 6 August 15 October 1906 |
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Darkness in Light 20.8.06 Our Rip Van Winkles 20.8.06 Indians Abroad 20.8.06 Officials on the Fall of Fuller 20.8.06 Cow Killing: An Englishman's Amusements in Jalpaiguri 20.8.06 |
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Schools for Slaves 27.8.06 By the Way 27.8.06 |
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The Mirror and Mr. Tilak 28.8.06 Leaders in Council 28.8.06 |
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Loyalty and Disloyalty in East Bengal 30.8.06 By the Way 30.8.06 |
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Lessons at Jamalpur 1.9.06 By the Way 1.9.06 |
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By the Way 3.9.06 |
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Partition and Petition 4.9.06 English Enterprise and Swadeshi 4.9.06 Sir Frederick Lely on Sir Bampfylde Fuller 4.9.06 Jamalpur 4.9.06 By the Way 4.9.06 |
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The Times on Congress Reforms 8.9.06 By the Way 8.9.06 |
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The Pro-Petition Plot 10.9.06 Socialist and Imperialist 10.9.06 The Sanjibani on Mr. Tilak 10.9.06 Secret Tactics 10.9.06 By the Way 10.9.06 |
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A Savage Sentence 11.9.06 The Question of the Hour 11.9.06 A Criticism 11.9.06 By the Way 11.9.06 |
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The Old Policy and the New 12.9.06 Is a Conflict Necessary? 12.9.06 The Charge of Vilification 12.9.06 Autocratic Trickery 12.9.06 By the Way 12.9.06 |
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Strange Speculations 13.9.06 The Statesman under Inspiration 13.9.06 |
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A Disingenuous Defence 14.9.06 |
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Last Friday's Folly 17.9.06 Stop-gap Won't Do 17.9.06 By the Way 17.9.06 |
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Is Mendicancy Successful? 18.9.06 By the Way 18.9.06 |
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By the Way 20.9.06 |
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By the Way 1.10.06 |
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By the Way 11.10.06 |
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Part Three Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 24 October 1906 27 May 1907 |
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The Famine near Calcutta 29.10.06 Statesman's Sympathy Brand 29.10.06 By the Way. News from Nowhere 29.10.06 |
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The Statesman's Voice of Warning 30.10.06 Sir Andrew Fraser 30.10.06 By the Way. Necessity Is the Mother of Invention 30.10.06 |
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Articles Published in the Bande Mataram in November and December 1906 |
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The Man of the Past and the Man of the Future 26.12.06 |
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The Results of the Congress 31.12.06 |
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Yet There Is Method in It 25.2.07 |
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Mr. Gokhale's Disloyalty 28.2.07 |
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The Comilla Incident 15.3.07 |
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British Protection or Self-Protection 18.3.07 |
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The Berhampur Conference 29.3.07 |
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The President of the Berhampur Conference 2.4.07 |
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Peace and the Autocrats 3.4.07 |
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Many Delusions 5.4.07 By the Way. Reflections of Srinath Paul, Rai Bahadoor, on the Present Discontents 5.4.07 |
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Omissions and Commissions at Berhampur 6.4.07 |
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The Writing on the Wall 8.4.07 |
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A Nil-admirari Admirer 9.4.07 |
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Pherozshahi at Surat 10.4.07 A Last Word 10.4.07 |
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The Situation in East Bengal 11.4.07 |
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The Doctrine of Passive Resistance 11 23.4.07 I. Introduction II. Its Object III. Its Necessity IV. Its Methods VI. Its Limits VII. Conclusions |
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The Proverbial Offspring 12.4.07 By the Way 12.4.07 |
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By the Way 13.4.07 |
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The Old Year 16.4.07 Rishi Bankim Chandra 16.4.07 |
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A Vilifier on Vilification 17.4.07 By the Way. A Mouse in a Flutter 17.4.07 |
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Simple, Not Rigorous 18.4.07 British Interests and British Conscience 18.4.07 A Recommendation 18.4.07 |
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An Ineffectual Sedition Clause 19.4.07 The Englishman as a Statesman 19.4.07 |
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The Gospel according to Surendranath 22.4.07 |
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A Man of Second Sight 23.4.07 Passive Resistance in the Punjab 23.4.07 |
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By the Way 24.4.07 |
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Bureaucracy at Jamalpur 25.4.07 Anglo-Indian Blunderers 25.4.07 The Leverage of Faith 25.4.07 |
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Graduated Boycott 26.4.07 Instinctive Loyalty 26.4.07 Nationalism, Not Extremism 26.4.07 |
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hall India Be Free? The Loyalist Gospel 27.4.07 The Mask Is Off 27.4.07 |
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Shall India Be Free? National Development and Foreign Rule 29.4.07 |
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Shall India Be Free? 30.4.07 |
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Moonshine for Bombay Consumption 1.5.07 The Reformer on Moderation 1.5.07 |
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Shall India Be Free? Unity and British Rule 2.5.07 |
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Extremism in the Bengalee 3.5.07 Hare or Another 3.5.07 |
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Look on This Picture, Then on That 6.5.07 |
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Curzonism for the University 8.5.07 Incompetence or Connivance 8.5.07 Soldiers and Assaults 8.5.07 |
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By the Way 9.5.07 |
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Lala Lajpat Rai Deported 10.5.07 |
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The Crisis 11.5.07 Lala Lajpat Rai 11.5.07 |
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Government by Panic 13.5.07 In Praise of the Government 13.5.07 |
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The Bagbazar Meeting 14.5.07 A Treacherous Stab 14.5.07 |
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How to Meet the Ordinance 15.5.07 |
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Mr. Morley's Pronouncement 16.5.07 The Bengalee on the Risley Circular 16.5.07 What Does Mr. Hare Mean? 16.5.07 Not to the Andamans! 16.5.07 |
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The Statesman Unmasks 17.5.07 Sui Generis 17.5.07 |
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The Statesman on Mr. Mudholkar 20.5.07 |
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The Government Plan of Campaign 22.5.07 The Nawab's Message 22.5.07 |
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And Still It Moves 23.5.07 British Generosity 23.5.07 |
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An Irish Example 24.5.07 |
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The East Bengal Disturbances 25.5.07 Newmania 25.5.07 |
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The Gilded Sham Again 27.5.07 National Volunteers 27.5.07 |
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Part Four Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 28 May 22 December 1907 |
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The True Meaning of the Risley Circular 28.5.07 Cool Courage and Not Blood-and-Thunder Speeches 28.5.07 |
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The Effect of Petitionary Politics 29.5.07 The Sobhabazar Shaktipuja 29.5.07 |
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The Ordinance and After 30.5.07 A Lost Opportunity 30.5.07 The Daily News and Its Needs 30.5.07 Common Sense in an Unexpected Quarter 30.5.07 Drifting Away 30.5.07 |
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The Question of the Hour 1.6.07 |
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Regulated Independence 4.6.07 A Consistent Patriot 4.6.07 Holding on to a Titbit 4.6.07 |
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Wanted, a Policy 5.6.07 Preparing the Explosion 5.6.07 |
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A Statement 6.6.07 Law and Order 6.6.07 |
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Defying the Circular 7.6.07 By the Way. When Shall We Three Meet Again? 7.6.07 |
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The Strength of the Idea 8.6.07 Comic Opera Reforms 8.6.07 Paradoxical Advice 8.6.07 |
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An Out-of-Date Reformer 12.6.07 |
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The Sphinx 14.6.07 |
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Slow but Sure 17.6.07 |
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The Rawalpindi Sufferers 18.6.07 Look on This Picture and Then on That 18.6.07 |
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The Main Feeder of Patriotism 19.6.07 |
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Concerted Action 20.6.07 The Bengal Government's Letter 20.6.07 |
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British Justice 21.6.07 The Moral of the Coconada Strike 21.6.07 The Statesman on Shooting 21.6.07 |
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Mr. A. Chaudhuri's Policy 22.6.07 A Current Dodge 22.6.07 |
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More about British Justice 24.6.07 |
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Morleyism Analysed 25.6.07 Political or Non-Political 25.6.07 Hare Street Logic 25.6.07 The Tanjore Students' Resolution 26.6.07 |
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The Statesman on Mr. Chaudhuri 26.6.07 |
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"Legitimate Patriotism" 27.6.07 Khulna Oppressions 27.6.07 |
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The Secret Springs of Morleyism 28.6.07 A Danger to the State 28.6.07 The New Thought. Personal Rule and Freedom of Speech and Writing 28.6.07 |
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The Secret of the Swaraj Movement 29.6.07 Passive Resistance in France 29.6.07 By the Way 29.6.07 |
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Stand Fast 1.7.07 |
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The Acclamation of the House 2.7.07 Perishing Prestige 2.7.07 A Congress Committee Mystery 2.7.07 |
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Europe and Asia 3.7.07 |
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Press Prosecutions 4.7.07 |
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Try Again 5.7.07 |
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A Curious Procedure 9.7.07 Association and Dissociation 9.7.07 |
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Industrial India 11.7.07 |
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From Phantom to Reality 13.7.07 Audi Alteram Partem 13.7.07 Swadeshi in Education 13.7.07 |
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Boycott and After 15.7.07 |
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In Honour of Hyde and Humphreys 16.7.07 |
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Angelic Murmurs 18.7.07 |
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A Plague o' Both Your Houses 19.7.07 |
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The Khulna Comedy 20.7.07 A Noble Example 20.7.07 |
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The Korean Crisis 22.7.07 |
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One More for the Altar 25.7.07 |
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Srijut Bhupendranath 26.7.07 |
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The Issue 29.7.07 |
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District Conference at Hughly 30.7.07 Bureaucratic Alarms 30.7.07 |
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The 7th of August 6.8.07 The Indian Patriot on Ourselves 6.8.07 |
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Our Rulers and Boycott 7.8.07 Tonight's Illumination 7.8.07 Our First Anniversary 7.8.07 |
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To Organise 10.8.07 Statutory Distinction 10.8.07 |
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Marionettes and Others 12.8.07 A Compliment and Some Misconceptions 12.8.07 Pal on the Brain 12.8.07 |
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Phrases by Fraser 13.8.07 |
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To Organise Boycott 17.8.07 The Foundations of Nationality 17.8.07 |
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Barbarities at Rawalpindi 20.8.07 The High Court Miracles 20.8.07 The Times Romancist 20.8.07 |
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A Malicious Persistence 21.8.07 |
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In Melancholy Vein 23.8.07 Advice to National College Students [Speech] 23.8.07 |
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Sankaritola's Apologia 24.8.07 |
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Our False Friends 26.8.07 |
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Repression and Unity 27.8.07 |
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The Three Unities of Sankaritola 31.8.07 |
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Eastern Renascence 3.9.07 |
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The Martyrdom of Bipin Chandra 12.9.07 |
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Sacrifice and Redemption 14.9.07 |
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The Un-Hindu Spirit of Caste Rigidity 20.9.07 |
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Caste and Democracy 21.9.07 |
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Bande Mataram Prosecution 25.9.07 Pioneer or Hindu Patriot? 25.9.07 |
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The Chowringhee Pecksniff and Ourselves 26.9.07 |
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The Statesman in Retreat 28.9.07 The Khulna Appeal 28.9.07 |
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A Culpable Inaccuracy 4.10.07 |
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Novel Ways to Peace 5.10.07 "Armenian Horrors" 5.10.07 |
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The Vanity of Reaction 7.10.07 The Price of a Friend 7.10.07 A New Literary Departure 7.10.07 |
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Protected Hooliganism -A Parallel 8.10.07 Mr. Keir Hardie and India 8.10.07 |
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The Shadow of the Ordinance in Calcutta 11.10.07 |
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The Nagpur Affair and True Unity 23.10.07 |
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The Nagpur Imbroglio 29.10.07 |
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English Democracy Shown Up 31.10.07 |
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Difficulties at Nagpur 4.11.07 |
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Mr. Tilak and the Presidentship 5.11.07 |
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Nagpur and Loyalist Methods 16.11.07 The Life of Nationalism 16.11.07 |
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By the Way. In Praise of Honest John 18.11.07 |
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Bureaucratic Policy 19.11.07 |
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About Unity 2.12.07 |
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Personality or Principle? 3.12.07 |
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More about Unity 4.12.07 |
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By the Way 5.12.07 |
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Caste and Representation 6.12.07 |
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About Unmistakable Terms 12.12.07 |
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The Surat Congress 13.12.07 Misrepresentations about Midnapore 13.12.07 |
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Reasons of Secession 14.12.07 |
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The Awakening of Gujarat 17.12.07 |
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"Capturing the Congress" 18.12.07 Lala Lajpat Rai's Refusal 18.12.07 The Delegates' Fund 18.12.07 |
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Part Five Speeches 22 December 1907 1 February 1908 |
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Speeches 13-1-08 |
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Speeches 15-1-08 |
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Speeches 19-1-08 |
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Speeches 24-1-08 |
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Speeches 26-1-08 |
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Speeches 29-1-08 |
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Speeches 30-1-08 |
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Speeches 31-1-08 |
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Speeches 1-2-08 |
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Part Six Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo with Speeches Delivered during the Same Period 6 February 3 May 1908 |
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Revolutions and Leadership 6.2.08 |
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Speeches 12-13-2-08 |
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waraj 18.2.08 |
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The Future of the Movement 19.2.08 |
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Work and Ideal 20.2.08 By the Way 20.2.08 |
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The Latest Sedition Trial 21.2.08 Boycott and British Capital 21.2.08 Unofficial Commissions 21.2.08 The Soul and India's Mission 21.2.08 |
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The Glory of God in Man 22.2.08 |
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A National University 24.2.08 |
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Mustafa Kamal Pasha 3.3.08 |
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A Great Opportunity 4.3.08 |
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Swaraj and the Coming Anarchy 5.3.08 |
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The Village and the Nation 7.3.08 |
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Welcome to the Prophet of Nationalism 10.3.08 |
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The Voice of the Martyrs 11.3.08 Constitution-making 11.3.08 What Committee? 11.3.08 An Opportunity Lost 11.3.08 A Victim of Bureaucracy 11.3.08 |
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A Great Message 12.3.08 |
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The Tuticorin Victory 13.3.08 |
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Perpetuate the Split! 14.3.08 Loyalty to Order 14.3.08 |
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Asiatic Democracy 16.3.08 Charter or No Charter 16.3.08 |
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The Warning from Madras 17.3.08 |
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The Need of the Moment 19.3.08 |
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Unity by Co-operation 20.3.08 The Early Indian Polity 20.3.08 |
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The Fund for Sj. Pal 21.3.08 |
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The Weapon of Secession 23.3.08 Sleeping Sirkar and Waking People 23.3.08 Anti-Swadeshi in Madras 23.3.08 |
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Exclusion or Unity? 24.3.08 How the Riot Was Made 24.3.08 |
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Oligarchy or Democracy? 25.3.08 |
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Freedom of Speech 26.3.08 |
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Tomorrow's Meeting 27.3.08 Well Done, Chidambaram! 27.3.08 The Anti-Swadeshi Campaign 27.3.08 |
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Spirituality and Nationalism 28.3.08 |
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The Struggle in Madras 30.3.08 A Misunderstanding 30.3.08 |
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The Next Step 31.3.08 |
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India and the Mongolian 1.4.08 Religion and the Bureaucracy 1.4.08 The Milk of Putana 1.4.08 |
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Swadeshi Cases and Counsel 2.4.08 |
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The Question of the President 3.4.08 The Utility of Ideals 3.4.08 Speech at Panti's Math 3.4.08 |
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Convention and Conference 4.4.08 By the Way 4.4.08 |
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The Constitution of the Subjects Committee 6.4.08 |
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The New Ideal 7.4.08 |
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The Asiatic Role 9.4.08 Love Me or Die 9.4.08 |
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The Work Before Us 10.4.08 Campbell-Bannerman Retires 10.4.08 |
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Speech 10-4-08 |
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The Demand of the Mother 11.4.08 |
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Speech 12-4-08 |
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Peace and Exclusion 13.4.08 |
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Indian Resurgence and Europe 14.4.08 Om Shantih 14.4.08 |
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Conventionalist and Nationalist 18.4.08 |
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Speech 20-4-08 |
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The Future and the Nationalists 22.4.08 |
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The Wheat and the Chaff 23.4.08 |
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Party and the Country 24.4.08 The Bengalee Facing Both Ways 24.4.08 |
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The One Thing Needful 25.4.08 |
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New Conditions 29.4.08 Whom to Believe? 29.4.08 By the Way. The Parable of Sati 29.4.08 |
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Leaders and a Conscience 30.4.08 An Ostrich in Colootola 30.4.08 By the Way 30.4.08 |
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Nationalist Differences 2.5.08 Ideals Face to Face 2.5.08 |
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Part Seven Writings from Manuscripts 1907 1908 |
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Appendixes |
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Incomplete Drafts of Three Articles Draft of the Conclusion of "Nagpur and Loyalist Methods" Draft of the Opening of "In Praise of Honest John" Incomplete Draft of an Unpublished Article |
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Writings and Jottings Connected with the Bande Mataram 1906 1908 "Bande Mataram" Printers & Publishers, Limited. Draft of a Prospectus of 1907 Notes and Memos |
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Nationalist Party Documents |
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A Birthday Interview |
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<b{
CALCUTTA, June 12th, 1907 }
Bande Mataram { CALCUTTA, June 18th, 1907 }
The Rawalpindi Sufferers
The bureaucracy which has decided upon coercion as the most effective means of crushing the growing national spirit in India must necessarily turn the machinery of judicial administration also to its advantage. We have observed on previous occasions that a certain portion of the positive laws enacted by the British Government has been designed not so much to secure the rights and interests of the people as to repress their free manhood. There is a popular saying that almost every action of a man can be construed as an offence according to the Penal Code. This attempt to penalise many natural human activities in a conquered country, should have long ago convinced us of the true spirit of official-made British law but we instead have lived in a Fool's Paradise and run for safety to the institutions and professions of the foreigner, obstinately blind to the manner in which they illustrate the British genius for "ruling" subject races. Where the ordinary law does not cover all the conceivable offences against the interests of the foreigner ordinances and ukases can easily be invented to put a stop to undesirable activities as we have lately seen. Thus the bureaucratic machinery grinds slow or grinds fast, but grinding is its object. In the ordinary course of things we do not become immediately conscious of its baneful consequence; but when the bureaucracy is face to face with an adverse force or interest it at once sets itself to the work of repression with all its demoralising consequences. Viewed in this light what is being described as unprecedented and "humanity-staggering" police violence and police licence in the alleged Rawalpindi riot case, is no more than natural and expected. The tales of police oppression while inducing the most whole-hearted sympathy
Page – 508 with the noble sufferers have not the least feature of novelty in them. The Patrika is very much affected by the severe distress of the alleged rioters now on their trial; and moved by softer feelings, it has appealed to Lord Minto who according to our contemporary is "goodness personified" to come to their rescue. The Patrika is no doubt actuated by the very best of motives but our contemporary should remember that such nervousness while doing no good to the sufferers is demoralising to our firmness and high spirit. So far as the accused are concerned the die is cast. Suffer they must; their only care now must be so to suffer that their martyrdom may be a strength and inspiration to their countrymen. If their heroic and manful conduct during the trial and their readiness to face the grim sequel of a conviction puts courage into other hearts, then only will it be said that they have not suffered in vain. Otherwise there is not much on the credit side of the account. The duty of the publicist at such a time, is to seek to brace the nerves of the martyrs and not to take away from the merit of their service to the country by any advocacy humiliating in form or abject in spirit. The public attitude at such a time reacts on that of the sufferer and if we give way to weakness at the report of their sufferings, we set them a bad example. We also have been moved and not merely by feelings of grief and pity, at the dim, but only too sinister and significant hints of what is going on behind the decent show of a fair and public trial. But this is not a time when we should give vent to feminine emotions. To try to rouse pity in the rulers is as unprofitable as it is unworthy of our manhood and of our cause and in these rough and still only superficially civilised descendants of the old sea-robbers it can only excite a deep contempt towards us and increase their arrogance. If we must show our grief and pity let it be in substantial help to the victims or their relatives. If we must pray, let it be not to the goodness personified of any "sympathetic" repressor, but to the goodness unpersonified of the Power that makes and breaks kings and viceroys, empires and dominations. Let us pray to Him to give our brothers in Rawalpindi a stout and cheerful heart and a steadfast courage
Page – 509 so that in the hour of their trial they may do nothing common or mean upon that memorable scene, and that we too, if our turn comes to suffer such things or worse for our country, may so bear ourselves that our country may profit by our sufferings. This is the only prayer that befits us in this hour of the new birth of our nation. For all that the country suffers now or will suffer hereafter are but the natural birth-pangs of a free and regenerated India. __________
Look on This Picture and Then on That
The telegram sent us by our Mymensingh Correspondent about the decision in the case of the author of the notorious "Red Pamphlet" is significant. It is rumoured that Ibrahim has been let off on signing a personal recognizance bond for rupees one thousand, and nobody knows where the trial took place. If the rumour is true, then one is to understand that a downright vilifier of the Hindus who has attempted to outrage all that is considered sacred by the Hindus in Hindusthan and has put a premium on violence and lawlessness, has committed no serious offence. On the other hand in the case of Maulavi Liakat Hussain application for an adjournment was granted only on the Maulavi having furnished two sureties for Rs. 5,000 each and a personal security for Rs. 10,000. And we all know that Maulavi Liakat Hussain preached union between Hindus and Mahomedans and always expressed himself against the policy of sowing the seeds of discord between the followers of the two great religions in India. What is more it is not known if Ibrahim is himself worth Rs. 1,000 while the gentlemen who have stood sureties for Maulavi Liakat Hussain are worth much more than Rs. 10,000. The sharpness of the contrast makes comments superfluous.
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