{"id":2716,"date":"2013-07-13T01:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:25","slug":"44-bande-mataram-2-4-07-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\/44-bande-mataram-2-4-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-44_Bande Mataram 2-4-07.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBande Mataram<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t{ CALCUTTA, April 2nd, 1907<\/b> }<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe President of the Berhampur Conference
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\nWhen the Moderate caucus which arranges our Congresses and Conferences selected Srijut Deepnarain Singh to preside at
\nBerhampur, they thought, no doubt, that they had hit upon a doubly suitable choice. As a young man and one known to be an
\nardent patriot he would not disgust Bengal by an ultra-moderate pronouncement; as a Zamindar he might be expected to have
\nthe fear of the Government before his eyes and to avoid giving open support to the ideas and programme of the New School. It
\nwas this latter apprehension, we believe, that lay at the root of the dissatisfaction expressed by some of ourselves at the choice.
\nFor our part we shared neither the hopes of the Moderates nor the fears of our own party. We happen to know something of
\nSrijut Deepnarain Singh by report when he was in England and we could not believe that so much fire, sincerity and ardour
\nhad been quenched in so short a time or even subdued by his position as a rich man and a Zamindar. We confidently expected
\nfrom him a pronouncement worthy of the occasion and we have not been disappointed. The spirit of true nationalism underlies
\nhis address as reported in substance; the programme of the New School, so far as it has yet taken concrete shape either in
\npractice or in immediate urgency, has been accepted and the declaration for Boycott is satisfactorily clear and unmistakable.
\nBy bringing Srijut Deepnarain forward, it is probable that a real service will have been done to Bihar which is in bad need of
\nmen who can understand the drift of the times and direct the political activities of the province towards the future instead
\nof trying to keep them clamped to a dead and rotting past. Bihar has a future of its own as a Hindi-speaking sub-race of
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\nour nationality; and in that United States of India, which the
\nprophetic vision of the President has forecast, it will have its individual station. But in order to carry weight in that Union
\nBihar must take up its destinies and become an active force in the general movement towards independence. Whether the Biharis
\nare wise in desiring administrative separation from Bengal under the present bureaucracy, it is difficult to say. For our own part,
\nwe are inclined to doubt whether Bihar is as yet quite strong enough to stand by itself unassociated with Bengal or the United
\nProvinces in resistance to a bureaucratic oppression; but if the Biharis generally think themselves strong enough and desire to
\nstand apart, we should be the last, professing the principles we do, to oppose the idea. Administrative arrangements have
\nceased to be of vital importance. But the attempt which has been made in recent times to estrange the Biharis from the Bengalis
\nin spirit, is a more serious matter. There can be no ground of quarrel between the two peoples except such as arises from
\nthe unholy passion for Government service, places and favours; and this ignoble cause of dissension the new spirit will, we
\nhope, destroy before long by making place and service a brand of dishonour rather than of distinction. Judging from Srijut
\nDeepnarain’s address we seem to have in him a Bihari of spirit, judgment and intellectual ability who has already grasped the
\nfuture in anticipation and is likely to model the activities of his province in accordance with that larger vision and not under
\nthe stress of petty and evanescent interests. No province can advance under a more unerring guide or shape its activities to
\nthe demands of a more infallible ideal than this vision of an India united in its variety. Regional and communal individualities and
\nactivities cannot be blotted out from this vast country, but they can be harmonised into a dominating unity.
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\nFor the rest, it is curious to note how invariably the manoeuvres of the Moderates turned against themselves. This is indeed
\ninevitable, for when Fate is against men, their likeliest measures and best-concerted combinations act to their own detriment.
\nDadabhai Naoroji was made President in order to dish the Extremists; yet it was this Moderate President who gave us the
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\n\tcry of Swaraj which the Extremists have made their own and
\nwhich is stirring the blood of the nation to great actions and great ideals. Madras and the United Provinces were declared to
\nbe unanimous against Boycott in order to prevent the Boycott Resolution from passing through the Congress; but the only
\nresult has been to raise a storm of Extremism in South and North alike and set the cry of Boycott ringing from one end
\nof India to the other. The shamelessly arbitrary action of the Moderate caucus at Allahabad has done more to kill the old
\nand help the new than the free admission of the Boycotters could possibly have done. The selection at the last moment of Srijut
\nDeepnarain as President in the hope of a “safe” address,\u2014 just as Berhampur was selected as a “safe” place\u2014 only resulted in
\na fresh testimony to the growth of the new ideas. How long will you try with these two-penny half-penny brooms of party
\nmanoeuvring to sweep back the ocean?    <\/span> <\/p>\n

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