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\n\tPart Two <\/font>
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\n\tBande Mataram
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\n\tunder the Editorship of Bipin Chandra Pal <\/b>
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\n\t6 August \u00ad 15 October 1906 <\/b>
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\n\tThe Bande Mataram <\/i>was launched by Bipin Chandra Pal in August 1906. Pal and other members of the group then known
\nas the New Party or Nationalist Party, but since then generally referred to as the Extremist Party, had been intending to bring out
\ntheir own English-language newspaper since the end of 1905. Eventually, acting on his own and “with only 500 rupees in his
\npocket”, Pal had the first issue of the paper printed on 6 August 1906. The same day he left Calcutta for a tour of East Bengal.
\nBefore going, he asked Sri Aurobindo, who was about to become principal of the Bengal National College, to contribute articles
\nregularly. Sri Aurobindo agreed and for the next two months was one of the
\n\tBande Mataram’s<\/i> principal writers.
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\n\tFront page of the daily
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\n\tBande Mataram
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\n\t{ CALCUTTA, August 20th, 1906 } <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tDarkness in Light<\/i>
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\nWe regret to find our contemporary Light <\/i>surpassing the most moderate of the moderatists in the timidity of its aspirations.
\n“What the most ambitious of Indians have dared to hope for is that a day may come,
\nit may be a century hence<\/i>, when in the
\ndomestic affairs of their country they will enjoy some measure of freedom from autocratic control.” Here is an inspiring ideal
\nindeed! Hail, Holy Light! thou art indeed a fit candle to illumine a somnolent constitutionalist’s repose!
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\n\t
\n\tOur Rip Van Winkles <\/b>
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\n\tThe development of sounder political ideas and the birth and
\ngrowth of a new national energy has been so swift and wonderful that it is not surprising to find a number of our older
\npoliticians quite left behind by the rising tide. Stranded on their desert islands of antiquated political ideas, they look forlornly
\nover the heaving tumult around them and strive piteously to imagine themselves still in their old carefully sheltered arena of
\nmimic political strife and safe, cheap, and profitable patriotism. But the walls of the arena have been washed away, its very
\nground is being obliterated, and a new world of stern reality and unsparing struggle is rapidly taking its place. In the fierce heat of
\nthat conflict all shams must wither away and all empty dreams be dissolved. The issue has been fairly put between the Indian
\npeople and the alien bureaucracy. “Destroy or thou shalt be destroyed,” and the issue will have to be fought out, not “it may
\nbe a century hence,” but now, in the next two or three decades.   
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\n\tWe cannot leave the problem for posterity to settle nor shift our
\nproper burdens on to the shoulders of our grandchildren. But our Rip Van Winkles persist in talking and writing as if Partition
\nand Boycott and Sir Bampfylde Fuller had never been. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tIndians Abroad <\/b>
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\n\tIndia <\/i>to hand this mail laments the exclusion of Indians from the representative system on which the new constitution in the
\nTransvaal is to be based and plaintively recalls the professions and promises of the British Government at the time of the Boer
\nwar. The saintly simplicity of India <\/i>grows daily more and more wearisome to us. Everybody who knew anything at all about politics understood at the time that those professions were merely a diplomatic move and the promises made were never meant to
\nbe carried out. We see no reason to lament what was always foreseen. What we do regret and blame is the spirit of Indians in
\nthe Transvaal who seek escape from the oppression they suffer under by ignoble methods similar in spirit to those practised by
\nthe constitutionalists in this country. The more the Transvaal Indians are kicked and insulted, the more loyal they seem to
\nbecome. After their splendid services in the Transvaal war had been rewarded by the grossest ingratitude, they had no business
\nto offer their services again in the recent Natal rebellion. By their act they associated themselves with the colonists in their
\noppression of the natives of the country and have only themselves to thank if they also are oppressed by the same narrow
\nand arrogant colonial spirit. Their eagerness to dissociate themselves from the Africans is shown in Dr. Abdurrahman’s letter
\nquoted by India<\/i>. All such methods are as useless as they are unworthy. So
\n\tlong as the Indian nation at home does not build itself into a strong and
\n\tself-governing people, they can expect nothing from Englishmen in their
\n\tcolonies except oppression and contumely. 
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\n\tOfficials on the Fall of Fuller
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\n\tThe seriousness of the blow which has fallen on the bureaucracy by the downfall of Shayesta Khan can be measured by the spite
\nand fury which it has excited in such public organs of officialdom as the Englishman
\n<\/i>and the Pioneer<\/i>. The letter of I.C.S. to the
\nPioneer <\/i>which we extract in another column is a more direct and very striking indication of the feelings which it has aroused
\nespecially among the colleagues of the deposed proconsul. The Anglo-Indian press has for the most part grasped the fact that
\nthe resignation of Sir Bampfylde Fuller was a victory for the popular forces in Eastern Bengal. Had the new province allowed
\nitself to be crushed by the repressive fury of Shayesta Khan or answered it only with petitions, like a sheep bleating under
\nthe knife of the butcher, bureaucracy would have triumphed. But determined repression met by determined resistance finally
\nmade Sir Bampfylde’s position untenable. Neither Lord Minto who from the first supported the Fullerian policy nor Mr. Morley
\nwho has done his best to shield and protect the petty tyrant in his worst vagaries, deserves the angry recriminations with which
\nthey are being assailed. They have both acted in the interests of the bureaucracy and if they have made an error of judgment in
\nthrowing Sir Bampfylde to the wolves, it is because the choice put before them was a choice of errors. By maintaining their
\nlieutenant they would have helped the revolutionary forces in the country to grow; by sacrificing him they have given fresh
\nvigour and self-confidence to the people in their resistance to the Partition. There comes a time in all such struggles when whatever the Government may do, it cannot fail to weaken itself and strengthen the people. Such a time has come in India and all the
\nrage of Anglo-India cannot alter the inevitable march of destiny.
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\n\tCow Killing: An Englishman’s Amusements in Jalpaiguri <\/b>
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\n\t\tA correspondent writes to us from Jalpaiguri;\u2014 “An Englishman, a forester, at Jalpaiguri has shot three cows, one of them
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\n\tbelonging to the school Head Pandit. The open garden of the
\nforester is near certain bungalows adjoining the school, and it appears that the cows strayed into the garden, whereupon the
\nSaheb calmly proceeded to shoot them. This he did laughing and in spite of the remonstrance of another Englishman, his friend.
\nOn the Head Pandit consulting his neighbours, he was told to consider himself lucky that it was the cows and not he whom
\nthe Saheb elected to shoot. Perceiving the force of this remark and apprehensive about his service, the Pandit has swallowed
\nand is trying to digest the loss and the mortification. I hear that when the bodies of the cows were being taken away, the Saheb
\nwas dancing with exultation.” <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\tWe publish the above extraordinary story of wanton oppression with reservation, but Anglo-Indian vagaries of the kind are too common for us quite to disbelieve it. If it is a fact, we
\ntrust the sufferer will think better of it and seek redress; the fear of swift punishment is the only motive force that can keep these
\nvagaries in check and every Indian who submits is partly guilty of the insults and oppressions inflicted on his fellow countrymen.
\n    <\/span> <\/p>\n

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