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\n\tCALCUTTA, May 30th, 1907 }
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\n\tCALCUTTA, June 6th, 1907 }
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\nA Statement
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\nMr. John Morley has committed himself in the House of Commons to a trenchant and unqualified statement that the whole
\nblame for the disturbances in East Bengal lies upon the Hindus who, by a violent and obstreperous boycott attended with coercion and physical force, have irritated the Mahomedans into revolt. Whether Mr. Morley made this statement out of a sweet
\ntrustfulness in the man on the spot or relying upon his philosophical judgment and innate powers of reasoning does not concern
\nus at all. Everyone knows that the statement is untrue. The boycott was no doubt the final cause of the hooliganism in the East
\njust as the Russian revolutionary movement was the final cause of the excesses of the Black Hundred, but it was in no way the
\nimmediate and efficient cause. It was the final cause in this sense that its first success compelled Sir Bampfylde Fuller to look about
\nfor a counteracting influence and he found it in the Nawab of Dacca and the use that could be made of the Nawab’s position to
\nhelp on a breach between the Mahomedans and Hindus. That is the whole and sole connection of boycott with the Mymensingh
\ndisturbances. The rest followed by a natural course of evolution. Sir Bampfylde favoured the Mahomedans and depressed
\nthe Hindus, the Nawab excited his co-religionists against their fellow-countrymen. There was no concealment about this policy,
\nno pretences. Sir Bampfylde Fuller openly declared that of his two wives the Mahomedan was his favourite and his favouritism
\nwas gross, open, palpable. He flourished it in the face of the public instead of concealing it. The Nawab of Dacca has also
\nopenly preached to his co-religionists about the wrongs they have suffered at the hands of the Hindus and called upon them
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\n\tto separate themselves from that evil and injurious connexion.
\nThere has been no concealment whatever about his anti-Hindu campaign. After the disappearance of Sir Bampfylde from the
\nscene of his exploits, the philo-Mahomedanism of the Shillong Government was no longer openly flourished in the face of the
\npublic but it was steadily continued in practice. The alliance of Anglo-India with the Nawab was from the beginning made the
\nmost of by the Englishman <\/i>which for some time carried on a very active philo-Mahomedan and anti-Hindu crusade in its columns
\nand did its best to stir up enmity between the two communities. So there came the first Mymensingh disturbances, the Comilla
\nriots and finally the supreme conflagration that started from Jamalpur. That conflagration was brought about by Maulavis
\npreaching outrage and plunder in the name of the Nawab of Dacca and the Government, an imputation which the Nawab of
\nDacca has made no attempt to repudiate, though, it is said, he has been challenged to do so in answer to his hollow professions
\nof a desire to bring about amity between the two communities, while the Shillong Government has repudiated it only tardily and
\nindirectly if at all, and only after the full mischief had been done. In all the incitements urged by the Maulavis and by the authors
\nof the notorious Red Pamphlet, there has been no mention of a violent enforcement of the boycott on the Mahomedans, neither
\nhas any such connexion been established by any of the judicial proceedings which have hitherto been concluded. The theory of
\nMr. John Morley is therefore a dead thing and of no farther interest to any human being.
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\n\tOf course the bureaucracy will go on playing with the bones of this dead scarecrow; it will wage war on Swadeshism on the
\nplea that it leads to disorder; but that is only because, like all bureaucracies, it is sublimely indifferent to reason and fact and
\npublic opinion. It has served its turn by the fiction which it foisted through the mouth of Honest John on a loudly applauding though somewhat befogged House of Commons and it does not care even if the fiction is disproved a thousand times over.
\nIt will go on acting as if the fiction were a fact. We do not see therefore the utility of the statement which a majority of
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\n\tthe Bengal leaders have published and which we hear is to be
\ntelegraphed or has been telegraphed to England. If the object is to set ourselves right in the opinion of the world, well, that is an
\ninnocent amusement. If it is to convince Mr. John Morley, it is a futility. It is absurd to suppose that Mr. John Morley at his age is
\ngoing to allow himself to be convinced. He is far too old and wise to admit inconvenient facts. The statement contains a number of
\nfacts which all Bengal knows, which all India is sure to believe and all officialdom sure to deny. Beyond that the statement, a
\nvery able one in its way, merely encourages the consumption of stationery, patronises a printing-press, startles the Empire and
\nenriches the Telegraph Office. Was it worth while? <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tLaw and Order
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\n\tThe Government of India is up and doing to restore law and order in the land. What is this law? What is this order which
\nseems to have disappeared from our midst and which the bureaucracy is calling back with deportation and prosecution and
\nalmost daily ordinances and ukases? The Britisher’s word is law, his very presence and existence in the land a signal for
\nthe suppression and suspension of manly or patriotic activities. Reconciliation with foreign despotism is perfect order. Doing
\nthe Britisher’s bidding is law. It is the height of impertinence to be begging and asking. It is criminal to insist on the undoing
\nof bureaucratic actions. To cry “Thy will be done” is loyalty and patriotism. To wish for our eternal serfdom is prudence and
\npeacefulness. To think ourselves irremediably unfit is wisdom and moderation. To imagine ourselves a nation is madness. To
\nlove our country is superstition. To work for its emancipation is treason. To harbour any such sentiment is sedition. Thus the
\nnew nationalism is subversive of law and order, religion and morality, justice and fair play, obedience and discipline. The law
\nagain is that some shall sow and others reap, that some shall buy and others sell, that some shall bleed and others fatten,
\nthat some shall order and others obey, that some shall rule and   
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\n\tothers submit, that some shall teach and others learn. The new
\nnationalism with its boycott and Swadeshi, national education and Swaraj, seeks to invert this order and needs to be put down.
\nIt is here in our non-conformity to the bureaucratic conceptions of our duties that law and order have been disturbed and not in
\nEastern Bengal and Rawalpindi as they have been trying to make out. There were riots before this more fearful and far-reaching
\nin their consequence but not followed by such systematic repression supported by everyone from the Secretary of State to the
\ncommonest civilian.
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