{"id":2714,"date":"2013-07-13T01:43:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:43:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:24","slug":"85-bande-mataram-27-5-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/06-07-bande-mataram\/85-bande-mataram-27-5-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-85_Bande Mataram 27-5-07.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBande
\n\tMataram<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t{ CALCUTTA, May 27th, 1907 }
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\nThe Gilded Sham Again
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\nThe Statesman <\/i>on Sunday
\ncame out with the startling fact that Mr. Morley has "finally formulated a
\nworkable scheme giving prominent natives a larger representation on the various
\nbodies having effective control of Indian affairs". This is, we presume, the
\nlast and most authoritative of the special cablegrams with which the
\nStatesman
\n<\/i>has been regaling us, for want of more substantial fare, ever since Mr. John
\nMorley became Chief Bureaucrat for India. For, we are told, Mr. Morley will make
\nan important announcement when introducing the Indian budget. We would call the
\nattention of our readers to the wording of this portentous cablegram. There is
\ngoing to be a larger representation on the bodies having effective control of
\nIndian affairs, viz., the Legislative Councils and, perhaps, the Executive in
\nwhich "natives" are at present unrepresented. Indians are not to be allowed any
\ncontrol over Indian affairs, they are only to be more largely represented on the
\nbodies which have that control. They are to have a larger voice, but there is to
\nbe no guarantee that the voice will be at all effective. The share of Indians in
\nthe Government has up to now been vox et praeterea nihil<\/i>, a voice and
\nnothing more, and in the future also it is to be a voice and nothing more. We
\nnotice, moreover, that it is not the country, not the people of India which is
\nto be represented, but only "prominent natives". We shall have a few more
\nGokhales, a few more Bhupendranath Boses, a few more Nawabs of Dacca on the
\nCouncils\u2014 and there an end. There will be a little manipulation of light and
\nshade, an increase in the number of dark faces, and Mr. Morley and the
\nStatesman <\/i>will triumphantly invite us to rejoice at the "important advance
\nthat has been made in    <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\nthe direction of
\nself-government". A hint has been given from another source that there will
\nactually be a non-official majority of elected and nominated members. In other
\nwords Mr. Apcar, Mr. Gokhale and the Nawab of Dacca multiplied several times
\nover will form a non-official majority in the Council. Is this the reform for
\nwhich we are invited to give up Swadeshi, Nationalism and our future? Mr. Morley
\nand the
\nStatesman <\/i>are grievously mistaken if they think that the newly-awakened
\nspirit of Indian Nationalism can any longer be put off with a gilded sham.
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n
\nNational Volunteers
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\nOur Barisal Correspondent seems,
\nlike the Khulna Magistrate, to have taken the
\nEnglishman<\/i>‘s Special Correspondent much too seriously. The fictions of
\nMr. Newman are too evidently fictions to deserve serious criticism. Whether they
\nare the distortions of a panic-stricken imagination or actual inventions, we
\nneed not too closely enquire. They have a certain journalistic effectiveness and
\nthey serve the political ends of this paper whose efforts are wholly directed
\ntowards urging on the Government to a policy of thoroughgoing repression.
\nEverybody in Bengal knows that previous to the disturbances in East Bengal there
\nwas no movement of the kind which has sent Mr. Newman into carefully calculated
\nhysterics. There was a movement for physical training and the institution of
\nakharas<\/i>, which was by no means so widespread or successful as it should have
\nbeen. There was also a custom which had first grown up in the Congress and
\nnaturally extended to Conferences and then to public meetings, of employing the
\nservices of young men in making the arrangements and keeping order. It is those
\nonly who bore the name of volunteers and they were never a standing
\norganisation, but merely organised themselves for the occasion and broke up when
\nit was over, nor had they any connection with the akharas<\/i>. Finally, there
\nwas in the earlier days of the Swadeshi movement great activity among the young
\nmen in picketing and other means of moral suasion to    <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n\tenforce the boycott, but
\n\texcept in one or two places this has long fallen into desuetude except for
\n\toccasional spasmodic attempts. Neither were the picketers ever formed into
\n\tan organisation or termed volunteers. After the outbursts of anti-Swadeshi
\n\tviolence at Comilla and Jamalpur the young men spontaneously united to
\n\tpresent a firm defence against hooligan outrage and this is the terrible
\n\tphenomenon which has made Mr. Newman delirious. In his ravings he has mixed
\n\tup all these loose threads and woven out of them a web fearful and
\n\twonderful. As a matter of fact hundreds of youths who are taking part in the
\n\tdefence of hearth and home, never entered an
\nakhara <\/i>or handled a lathi before, and are now first realising what they
\n\tought to have realised long ago, the necessity of physical exercise and
\n\ttraining in self-defence. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tWith extraordinary ingenuity
\n\tthis imaginative Sherlock Holmes of Anglo-India has discovered that the
\n\tAnti-Circular Society, the Bande Mataram Sampraday and the Brati-Samity,\u2014
\n\tharmless and peaceful relics of the first Swadeshi enthusiasm,\u2014 are
\n\tseparately and unitedly the organising centre of these terrible volunteers!
\n\tWe only wish our countrymen had shown themselves capable of forming such an
\n\torganisation, deliberate, well-knit and pervasive. But we have still some
\n\tway to travel before that becomes possible.    <\/span> <\/p>\n

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