{"id":2896,"date":"2013-07-13T01:44:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:44:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:26","slug":"64-bande-mataram-27-4-07-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\/64-bande-mataram-27-4-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-64_Bande Mataram 27-4-07.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tCALCUTTA, April 27th, 1907 }
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\nSHALL INDIA BE FREE?
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\nThe Loyalist Gospel <\/b>
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\nLiberty is the first requisite for the sound health and vigorous
\nlife of a nation. A foreign domination is in itself an unnatural condition, and if permitted, must bring about other unhealthy
\nand unnatural conditions in the subject people which will lead to fatal decay and disorganisation. Foreign rule cannot build
\nup a nation,\u2014 only the resistance to foreign rule can weld the discordant elements of a people into an indivisible unity. When
\na people, predestined to unity, cannot accomplish its destiny, foreign rule is a provision of Nature by which the necessary
\ncompelling pressure is applied to drive its jarring parts into concord. The unnatural condition of foreign rule is brought
\nin for a time in order to cure the previous unnatural condition of insufficient cohesiveness; but this can only be done by the
\nresistance of the subject people; for the incentive to unity given by the alien domination consists precisely in the desire to get rid
\nof it; and if this desire is absent, if the people acquiesce, there can be no force making for unity. Foreign rule was therefore
\nmade to be resisted; and to acquiesce in it is to defeat the very intention with which Nature created it.
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\nThese considerations are not abstract ideas, but the undeniable teaching of history which is the record of the world’s experience. Nationalism takes its stand upon this experience and calls upon the people of India not to allow themselves to fall into the
\nacquiescence in subjection which is the death-sleep of nations, but to make that use of the alien domination which Nature
\nintended,\u2014 to struggle against it and throw it off for unity,   
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\n\tfor self-realisation as an independent national organism. In this
\ncountry, however, there is a class of wise men who regard the rule of the British bureaucracy as a dispensation of Providence,
\nnot only to create unity but to preserve it. They preach therefore a gospel of faith in the foreigner, distrust of our countrymen
\nand acquiescence in alien rule as a godsend from on high and an indispensable condition for peace and prosperity. Even those
\nwhose hearts rebel against a doctrine so servile, are intellectually so much dominated by it that they cannot embrace Nationalism
\nwith their whole heart and try to arrive at a compromise between subjection and independence,\u2014 a half-way house between life
\nand death. Their ingenuity discovers an intermediate condition in which the blessings of freedom will be harmoniously wedded
\nwith the blessings of subjection; and to this palace in fairyland they have given the name of Colonial Self-Government. If it were
\nnot for the existence of this Moderate opinion and its strange parti-coloured delusions we would not have thought it worth
\nwhile to go back to first principles and show the falsity of the Loyalist gospel of acquiescence. But the Moderate delusion is
\nreally a by-product of the Loyalist delusion; and the parent error must be demolished first, before its offspring can be corrected.
\nThe Moderates are a hybrid species, emotionally Nationalist, intellectually Loyalist. It is owing to this double nature that
\ntheir delusions acquire an infinite power for mischief. People listen to them because they claim to be Nationalist and because
\na sincere Nationalist feeling not infrequently breaks through the false Loyalist reasoning. Moreover by associating themselves
\nwith the Moderates on the same platform the Loyalists are enabled to exercise an influence on public opinion which would
\notherwise not be accorded to them. The gospel according to Sir Pherozshah Mehta would not have such power for harm if it
\nwere not allowed to represent itself as one and the same with the gospel according to Mr. Gokhale.
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\n\tWhat then are the original ideas from which the Loyalist gospel proceeds? It has a triple foundation of error. First comes
\nthe postulate that disunion and weakness are ingrained characteristics of the Indian people and an outside power is necessary
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\n\tin order to arbitrate, to keep the peace and to protect the country
\nfrom the menace of the mightier nations that ring us in. Proceeding from this view and supporting it, is the second postulate that
\nthere must be an entire levelling down and sweeping away of all differences; aristocrat and peasant, Brahmin and Sudra, Bengali, Punjabi and Mahratta, all must efface their characteristics and differences before any resistance to foreign domination can
\nbe attempted, even if such resistance were desirable. The third postulate is that a healthy development is possible under foreign
\ndomination and that this healthy development must be first effected before we can dream of freedom or even of becoming a
\nnation. If these three postulates are granted, then the Loyalist creed is unassailable; if they are proved unsound, not only the
\nLoyalist creed but the standpoint of the Moderates ceases to have any basis of firm ground and becomes a thing in the air.
\nThe Nationalist contention is that all these three postulates are monuments of political unreason and have no firm foundation
\neither in historical experience or in the facts we see around us or in the nature of things. They are inconsistent with the fundamental nature of foreign domination; they ignore the experience of all other subject nations; they disregard human nature and the
\nconditions of human development in communities. The Loyalist gospel is as untrue as it is ignoble.
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\n\tThe Mask Is Off <\/b>
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\n\t\tThe Anglo-Indian journals are trying to assure the public that
\neverything is quiet in Jamalpur under the shadow of the British sword. The accounts that are appearing in various Indian journals put a very different complexion on the situation. It appears, to begin with, that the Gurkhas who were called in to preserve
\nthe peace are being allowed in co-operation with local hooligans to break it. The case of image-breaking is being deliberately
\nput off and the whole energy of the executive is devoted to terrorising the Hindus. Several pleaders, a Mukhtar, a Naib of
\nRamgopalpur and a Superintendent of the Gauripur estate along   
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\n\twith other leading gentlemen of Jamalpur have been arrested.
\n“The number of Mahomedan arrests”, writes one correspondent, “is simply nil<\/i>.” Comment is hardly necessary. The alliance
\nof the British bureaucracy with hooliganism stands confessed. To take advantage of Mahomedan riots in order to further terrorise by legal proceedings the assaulted Hindus, is the first preoccupation of the local magistrates. We have pointed out
\nalready that the procedure is to give scope and room enough for anti-Swadeshi violence and pillage and then to punish the
\nSwadeshists for the crime of self-defence or even simply for the crime of being assaulted. The mask is off.
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