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\n\tCALCUTTA, July 13th, 1907 }
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\nFrom Phantom to Reality
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\nThe action of the omnipotent and irresponsible executive in obstructing District Conferences alike in the proclaimed and unproclaimed areas of Bengal ought to carry home to every mind, however persistent in self-deception, the absurdity of vaunting
\nthe rights and privileges of a subject people. There is a taunt writ large over these ukases and it is this: “Fools and self-deceivers
\nwho think that rights can be held as the gift of a superior! Nothing is a right till it has been purchased by sacrifices as
\ngreat as the aspiration is high. You were allowed to speak and pass resolutions so long as speeches and resolutions were all;
\nbut now that you are breaking the tacit contract by turning your movement into a serious thing, we order you to be silent
\nand disperse.” Maya dies hard. Illusion is the chief obstacle to salvation, man clings to illusions by a natural impulse; but to
\nrid oneself of them is the beginning of wisdom. Illusions have long stood in the way of our political salvation and the lingering
\nfaith of our prominent men in persistent constitutional agitation even when the alien bureaucracy stands completely unmasked
\nbefore our eyes, is an illustration of the obstinate cherishing of illusions. The Magistrate prohibits the holding of the District
\nConference at Khulna. The High Court is moved and the illegal ukase is precipitately withdrawn: but the withdrawal was merely
\na change of tactics. A bureaucracy never lacks pretexts to harass the undesirables. The promoters of the Conference are now on
\ntheir trial for making seditious speeches in the Conference. At Faridpur a local leader whose faith in the ultimate good
\nsense of the autocratic rulers has outlived even the recent violent strain, arranged for a District Conference on a grand scale
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\n\tnotwithstanding the protests of a section of the public against
\nholding meetings with permission from the Police. As the recent District Conferences, though compromising our self-respect to a
\ncertain extent, have at last been justified by their results, we have preferred not to press the point of honour. We have submitted
\nto the Ordinance by not holding meetings; Faridpur and Pabna carry their weakness a little further, that is all. And on the whole
\nit was well that the attempt to hold the Conference was made. For the Faridpur leaders adopted to a certain extent the Nationalist programme and have, as a consequence, come in conflict with the bureaucracy. The prohibitory ukase of the Magistrate
\nof Faridpur leaves no doubt as to the attitude of the bureaucracy towards opposition in any form. They demand a tame
\nacquiescence in their arbitrary regulations and are determined to put down any expression of adverse opinion under the pretext
\nof preventing the spread of disaffection and the disturbance of public tranquillity. Is further explicitness wanted? Cultivate the
\nart of “wooing”, hold meetings to issue loyalist manifestos or celebrate the Empire Day, but if you are audacious enough to
\nexpress your discontent, the British truncheon is ready for you. This is the whole meaning of these ukases; this is the moral
\nrepeatedly inculcated through the various prohibitory circulars. As the old superstitions have still their hold on some minds, we
\nwelcome the repetition of such browbeating. But in the meantime we must not fail to turn them to account. If we are not
\ncapable of offering any active opposition to the encroachment on our natural rights, the intensified sense of wrong should at
\nleast give a healthy direction to the patriotic efforts of all. From such continued rebuffs we should draw the energy and inspiration to work out our national well-being on independent lines. Every fresh blow should impart a greater impetus to the Boycott,
\nto National Education, to the organisation of discontent, with a view to leaving the aliens severely alone. But hitherto our
\nModerate friends have rather been anxious to ram their heads more vigorously against the stone wall of bureaucracy than to
\nlearn by their failure the necessity of taking our own road. They still persist in trying to resurrect the dead phantom of British
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\n\tsympathy and good will. Henceforth they should seek rather
\nthe resurrection of our own national strength and greatness. When Lord Curzon aimed his first blow at self-government
\nby giving his seal of approval to the Calcutta Municipal Bill, the Pratibasi
\n<\/i>published a cartoon exposing the unsubstantial
\nnature of our rights and privileges. The Calcutta Municipality was represented as a shrouded corpse surrounded by weeping
\nrelatives to whom a padre <\/i>with the physiognomy of Sir John Woodburn soothingly remarked, “The Lord hath given, the
\nLord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” It drew forth from the
\nPioneer <\/i>the following retort: “The quaint
\nconceit might have been rounded off by some hope of future resurrection.” This false hope which the bureaucracy till now
\nsedulously fostered, has been a curse to the country. Privileges granted as favours have no true life in them; they are mere
\nillusions and what is the use of striving for the fitful return of ghosts who are again bound to disappear? Let maya pass
\nout of us, let the illusions die; let us turn with clear eyes and sane minds from these pale and alien phantoms to the true
\nreality of our Mother as she rises from the living death of a century, and in her seek our only strength and our sufficient
\ninspiration.
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\nOur Nagpur correspondent has taken us sharply to task for allowing ourselves to believe that the publication of the pamphlet Audi Alteram Partem <\/i>indicated a desire on the part of the Loyalists to leave backstairs tactics for the open field of fair
\nand honest controversy. We drew our first information from the Mahratta <\/i>and naturally inferred that the pamphlet was intended
\nfor public circulation, nor is there anything in the printed copy which has come into our hands to show the contrary. We presume, however, that our correspondent is well informed and that we were mistaken. By the invitation to hear the other side
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\n\ttoo in camera. We shall take an early opportunity of answering
\nthis secret manifesto of Nagpur Loyalism. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tSwadeshi in Education
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\n\tThere is an interesting article in the Modern Review <\/i>on Swadeshi in Education, interesting not only because of the subject and its
\nimportance, or of the undoubted thought and ability which have been devoted to the subject, but also and still more because of
\nthe limitations of the present education to which it bears striking evidence. The mind trained by the present system of education,
\neven when it is somewhat above the average, is almost invariably deficient in practicality and the robustness to shake off cherished superstitions and face and recognise facts. The attempt at Swadeshi Education under the official Universities has been
\nmade both in Calcutta and under peculiarly favourable circumstances at Poona. At Poona an immense amount of self-sacrifice
\nwent to the making of the New English School and the Ferguson College, and some of the best intellects and noblest hearts in
\nthe Deccan devoted themselves to the work. Yet the end was failure. The Ferguson College is in no way superior to any other
\ninstitution in the Bombay University, although also in no way inferior. Its education is the same vicious and defective education\u2014 utterly unsuited to modern needs, academic, scrappy, unscientific, unpractical, unideal. It takes aid from the officials, submits
\nto their dictation and excludes politics at their bidding. Yet the proposal of the
\nModern Review <\/i>writer is merely to concentrate
\nthe best intellects of the country in the Poona Institution in order to make it “an Indian College superior to any existing College”,
\nand he summarily dismisses the idea of a National University merely on the score of expense. We fail to see how this will meet
\nthe problem or how such an institution can really deserve the name of Swadeshi in Education. Swadeshi in Education does not
\nmean teaching by Indian professors only or even management by Indians only. It means an education suited to the temperament
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\n\tfor life under modern conditions, and absolutely controlled by
\nIndians. The proposed Model College might avail itself of the services of Drs. Bose and Ray and Ziauddin, but they would
\nafter all have to teach on the lines and up to the standard of the Bombay University and submit entirely to the rules and orders
\nof the Bombay Government as conveyed through an officialised Senate and Syndicate. We should still be confined within the
\nvicious circle of which the writer complains. We should be no nearer “taking the higher education of this country into our
\nown hands and ceasing to look to Englishmen for help” than we were thirty years ago. Independence is the first condition and
\nany scheme which disregards it is doomed to failure.   
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