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\n\tCALCUTTA, July 15th, 1907 }
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\nBoycott and After
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\nThe twentieth century dawned on a rising flood of renascent humanity surging over Asia’s easternmost borders. The first report of it reached the astonished world in the victorious thunder of Japan. And it spread onward, this resurgent wave of human
\nspirit, swiftly, irresistibly, overflooding in a sweeping embrace China, India, Persia and the farther West. India received the ablution of the holy waters singing her sacred hymn
\nBande Mataram <\/i>that filled the spaces of heaven with joyous echoes heard of the
\nGods as of old, and the nations of the earth listened to the song of unfree India and knew what it was\u2014 a voice in the chorus of
\nAsiatic liberty. The unpremeditated and spontaneous declaration of the Boycott was the declaration of the country’s recovery to
\nlife from its death-swoon of centuries, of her determination to live her own life\u2014 not for a master, but for herself and for the
\nworld. All was changed. Patriotism, the half-understood catchword of platform oratory, passed out of its confinement into the
\nheart of the people\u2014 the priest and the prince and the peasant alike\u2014 giving to each that power of sacrifice which has now
\ntranslated itself according to the confessions of the Times <\/i>into the concrete fact of 42 million yards less of English cotton goods.
\nAnd the demonstration of the sixteenth of October joined in by the Hindu and the Mahomedan, the Buddhist, the Jain and the
\nSikh, the police and the people, through the mystic compulsion of an instinctive fraternity, was the enchanting prevision of the
\nIndia to be. Such a vision is vouchsafed only to the man or the nation
\nthat stands on the threshold of emancipation; it came to the Rishi filling him with the immortal longing to be one with the
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\nDivine, to the mediaeval monk penetrating him with the lifelong love of Christ, and it has ever come at the mature moment to the down-trodden peoples of the earth revealing to them in
\na flash the mission and the destination of their life. It remains but a moment, but those that have seen it can never forget or
\nrest; they pursue the glory, even while it seems to recede into the distance, over the even and uneven walks of life, past the smiles
\nof the tempter, through the prison-gate and exit, on through the jaws of death. Its effect on the individual is immediate, on
\na whole nation necessarily spread over a longer time during which the seer of it bears its message to him who has not seen.
\nBut the progress of the pursuit none can arrest till the vision is reached, realised and reinstalled in all the beauty of its first
\nappearance. Ever since the Partition day, India has pressed on this path; the boycott of foreign goods, the return of the weaver
\nto his loom, the dissociation of the people from the Government, the strikes, the deluge of meetings all over the land, the
\ninsulting of the National leaders, the breaking up of the Barisal Conference, the dismissal of Fuller, the appointment of Hare,
\nthe persecution of boys, the dismissal of the school-masters who loved liberty more than money, the foundation of the National
\nCouncil of Education, of National schools, the institution of technical education, the insolvency of dealers in Bideshi goods,
\nthe social excommunication of anti-boycotters, the unbidden repetitions of the Rakhi-day fast, the passing of the Swadeshi
\nresolution by the Congress, the prosecution of the Punjabis, the Rawalpindi riot, the Mahomedan rowdyism in East Bengal,
\nthe loan to Salimullah, Newmania, the changed and respectful attitude of Anglo-Indians towards Indians, the deportation of
\nLajpat and Ajit Singh, the proclamation, the unmasking of English liberalism, the awakening of Madras, the prosecutions at
\nRajamundry and Coconada, the continuing prosecutions in the Punjab and Bengal, the admission by the
\nTimes <\/i>of the success
\nof the Boycott, the throwing of 150,000 English labourers out of employment and the necessity of easing overstocked markets,
\nare some of the landmarks of the country’s progress. Before her now lies the valley of the shadow of death full of trials and
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\n\tunknown perils and temptations, but the light that leads her
\ncannot fail; the inspiration of the Power that gives her strength is irresistible, superior to death; she will go on till the fulfilment
\nof the vision of the 16th of October. There is a Divinity that has been shaping her ends\u2014 no mere might of man, for nothing but
\nthe renovating touch of Divinity can account for the difference between now and then, between the days before and after the
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