{"id":2908,"date":"2013-07-13T01:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2908"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:44:31","slug":"105-bande-mataram-26-6-07-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\/105-bande-mataram-26-6-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-105_Bande Mataram 26-6-07.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBande
\n\tMataram<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t{ CALCUTTA, June 26th, 1907 }
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\n
\nThe Tanjore Students’ Resolution
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\nAt a meeting of the Tanjore
\nstudents a resolution was passed exhorting the students and guardians at
\nRajamundry "to lose no time in starting a National College free from the
\nshackles of the Government". Thus we find Madras students realising the
\nsituation better than the students in Bengal who played so prominent a part in
\nthe agitation that followed the Partition of Bengal. We have all realised that
\nthe education the Government prescribes for our young men is not calculated to
\nhelp in developing the manhood of the nation. The system of education that
\nprevailed before the passing of the Universities Act was bad enough. But this
\neducation as deformed by the provisions of the Act was a direct attempt to stem
\nthe tide of political progress in India and produce men minus a backbone. Now
\nthat we have realised that to help the growing race consciousness in India we
\nmust have a system of education consistent with the traditions of the people and
\ncalculated to foster that spirit of Nationalism which alone can make a nation
\ngreat, it is the duty of every Indian to help the inauguration of such a system
\nof education and place it on a firm footing. The duty becomes all the more
\nsacred in the face of the powerful opposition that such a system of education is
\nsure to encounter at the hands of the bureaucracy whose interests are likely to
\nbe injured by it. It is only the unanimous support of the country that can make
\nsuch an opposition fruitless. And it is a significant sign of the times that
\nstudents all over the country are realising it. We are sure it will not be long
\nbefore the whole country is on fire with a desire to strengthen the national
\nsystem of education that has been inaugurated and the impending struggle against
\nthe Risley    <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\n\tCircular will be the
\n\tprecursor of even a greater movement which will make National Education in
\n\tIndia an accomplished success. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\t__________<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t
\n\tThe Statesman
\n<\/i>on Mr. Chaudhuri
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\n\tThe Statesman <\/i>is
\n\tnaturally delighted with Mr. A. Chaudhuri’s declaration in favour of leaving
\n\tpolitics out of our programme. Here at least, cries the Friend of India, is
\n\ta leader after our own heart. No doubt it would be extremely convenient for
\n\tthe Friend of India and its countrymen if Indians did give up their
\n\tpolitical aspirations and leave Anglo-India in undisputed possession of the
\n\tfield, but we do not think the friendly yearnings of the Statesman
\n<\/i>are likely to be gratified. Mr. Chaudhuri’s message fell flat even in his
\n\town Pabna. At the same time our contemporary seems hardly to have taken the
\n\ttrouble to understand the speech of his new prot\u00e9g\u00e9. He fastens on the
\n\tpowerful indictment of the present system of education which is the most
\n\tstriking portion of Mr. Chaudhuri’s address, and warmly approves of it. But
\n\the mildly rebukes the speaker for pinning his hopes on the new system of
\n\tNational Education which is gradually spreading throughout Bengal and
\n\tadvises him to transfer his affections to the old University. National
\n\tEducation will be a failure, says the Chowringhee prophet; Indians are too
\n\tselfish and unpatriotic to make it a success. What then is to be done? Why,
\n\tgive up agitating for political reform since our agitation is so obviously a
\n\tfailure and begin agitating for educational reform. It is a luminous idea.
\n\tAfter having wasted a century begging the British Government to reform their
\n\tadministration, we are to waste another century begging them to reform their
\n\teducational system,\u2014 with equal futility. The Government cannot give us a
\n\treformed and modern system of education for obvious reasons. It would mean
\n\tthe growth of highly trained specialists who would immediately demand to be
\n\temployed in preference to aliens, and either the bread of so many Europeans
\n\twould be taken out of their mouths or there would be a fresh cause of
\n\tdiscontent. It would equip Indians to oust the white man from his   
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\n\tlucrative monopoly of
\n\tcommerce and trade and kill British trade in India by the development of
\n\tindigenous industries. It would mean the transformation of our people into a
\n\thighly-trained and well-equipped nation who would certainly not submit to
\n\tMr. Morley’s personal and absolute British control. Anything short of this
\n\twould not meet Mr. Chaudhuri’s ideal; but anything like this the bureaucracy
\n\tcould not give us without committing suicide. The Statesman <\/i>has not,
\n\tas we said, cared to understand Mr. Chaudhuri. He is for dropping politics
\n\tbut he is also for self-help and denounces mendicancy. We fear the
\n\tStatesman <\/i>will have to look farther for its ideal Bengali leader. Why
\n\tnot try Sankaritola?    <\/span> <\/p>\n

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