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\n\tCALCUTTA, July 9th, 1907 }
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\nA Curious Procedure
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\nThat the bureaucracy and its instruments should look with disfavour on the
\nBande Mataram <\/i>and dread the increase of its
\ncirculation, is only to be expected; but the means by which they combat its diffusion are sometimes of a peculiar, if characteristic kind. An up-country agent writes to us: “The police and the Government officials are obstructing us much. They are
\nthreatening the servants with punishment and imprisonment, if they sell the Bande Mataram
\n<\/i>paper, because the paper writes
\nagainst Government. So the poor illiterate people of this place are afraid of selling them.” We are often advised to keep our
\nagitation within the limits of law; we would suggest that the bureaucrats might show us the example. If in order to prevent
\nthe growth of an infant Nationalism and its new-born exponent, an all-powerful bureaucracy is compelled to stoop to such petty
\npersecution and intimidate people from a peaceful avocation by the illegal menaces of their underlings, the as yet weak and
\ndisorganized people of this country may surely be excused if they are sometimes carried beyond the precise limits of moral
\nsuasion in struggling against the most powerfully organized commerce in the world backed by the whole administrative
\nstrength, the police, magistracy and troops of the British Indian Empire. As to the paltry meanness of such obstructions, we say
\nnothing; “melancholy meanness” and bureaucracy have always gone hand in hand in all climes and ages.
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\nAssociation and Dissociation
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\nThe Maharaja of Darbhanga has dissociated himself from the “extremists” and Hare Street is wild with delight. But really,
\nwhat else did the Englishman <\/i>expect? A great landholder of the Maharaja’s position is hardly more of a free agent than the ruler
\nof a “protected” State. He is so exposed to official pressure and has so much to lose that it would indeed be miraculous if he did
\nnot insist in season and out of season on his loyalty. If the Maharaja had been a declared Nationalist and suddenly recanted,
\nwe could have understood the joy of Anglo-India over the sheep that was lost and again is found. But he has on the contrary been
\nalways avowedly loyal, moderate and platonically patriotic. In fact we believe the speech of Darbhanga marks rather a setback to Anglo-Indian hopes than an incident over which there need be any exultation. Recently there was a secret conclave of
\nhigh dignitaries in the Maharaja’s house, at which there were some strange planetary conjunctions, Sirish Sarvadhicari of the
\nHindu Patriot <\/i>sitting cheek by jowl with Srijut Surendranath Banerji to consult on the situation. At this meeting of opposites
\nit was proposed, we believe, to issue a loyal manifesto after the fashion set by the Punjab. But owing to the opposition of the
\npopular leaders who would not hear of such a betrayal and self-degradation the proposal fell through. We do not know how
\nfar the report is true, but if the proposal was made and failed, a personal declaration must obviously have been resorted to
\nby the Maharaja when the hope of finding companions in sin had to be renounced. The Maharaja is to be pitied for having
\nto dissociate himself from his countrymen in this crisis of their destinies.
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