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\n

\nBande Mataram<\/p>\n

<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n

 <\/font> <\/font><\/b>Daily:
\n<\/font>
\n <\/font><\/span> August 6,  <\/span>1906<\/font> to
\n<\/font>  <\/font><\/span> October 29, 1908<\/font>
\n<\/font>
\n<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\nWeekly:
\n<\/font>
\nJune 2, 1907<\/font> to <\/font>
\nSeptember 27, 1908<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/font> 
\n 
\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-129<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\nBande
\nMataram<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\nDarkness
\nin "Light"<\/font><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nWe
\nregret to find our contemporary Light <\/i>surpassing the most moderate of the
\nmoderatists in the timidity of its aspirations. "What the most ambitious of
\nIndians have dared to hope for is that a day may come, may be a century hence<\/i>, <\/i>when in the domestic affairs of their country they will enjoy some
\nmeasure of freedom from autocratic control. "Here is an inspiring ideal
\nindeed! Hail, Holy Light! thou<\/span> art indeed a fit
\ncandle to illumine a somnolent constitutionalist’s repose!<\/font><\/p>\n

\n 
\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n
\nOur Rip Van Winkles<\/font><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe
\ndevelopment of sounder political ideas and the birth and growth of a new
\nnational energy has been so swift and wonderful that it is not surprising to
\nfind a number of our older politicians quite left behind by the rising tide.
\nStranded on their desert islands of antiquated political ideas, they look
\nforlornly over the heaving tumult around them and strive piteously to imagine
\nthemselves still in their old carefully sheltered arena of mimic political
\nstrife and safe, cheap, and profitable patriotism. But the walls of the arena
\nhave been washed away, its very ground is being obliterated, and a new world of
\nstern reality and unsparing struggle is rapidly taking its place. In the fierce
\nheat of that conflict all shams must wither away and all empty dreams be
\ndissolved. The issue has been fairly put between the Indian people and the alien
\nbureaucracy. "Destroy or thou shalt be destroyed", and the issue will
\nhave to be fought out, not "it may be a century hence", but now, in
\nthe next two or three decades. We cannot leave the problem for posterity to
\nsettle nor shift our proper burdens on to the shoulders of our grandchildren.
\nBut our Rip Van Winkles persist in talking and writing as if Partition and
\nBoycott and Sir Bampfylde Fuller had never been.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-131<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\nIndians
\nAbroad<\/a><\/b><\/font><\/p>\n


\n <\/font> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n


\nIndia <\/font> <\/i>to hand this mail laments the exclusion
\nof 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
\nthe British Government at the time of the Boer War. The saintly simplicity of <\/p>\n

India<\/i><\/p>\n

grows
\ndaily more and more wearisome to us. Everybody who knew anything at all about
\npolitics understood at the time that those professions were merely a diplomatic
\nmove and the promises made were never meant to be carried out. We see no reason
\nto lament what was always foreseen. What we do regret and blame is the spirit of
\nIndians in the
\nTransvaal who seek escape from the oppression they suffer
\nunder by ignoble methods similar in spirit to those practised by the
\nconstitutionalists in this country. The more the Transvaal Indians are kicked
\nand insulted, the more loyal they seem to become. After their splendid services
\nin the
\nTransvaal war had been rewarded by the grossest
\ningratitude, they had no business to offer their services again in the recent<\/p>\n

Natal<\/p>\n

rebellion. By their act they associated
\nthemselves with the colonists in their oppression of the natives of the country
\nand 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
\nAfricans is shown in Dr. Abdurrahman’s letter quoted by <\/p>\n

India<\/i>. <\/i>All
\nsuch methods are as useless as they are unworthy. So long as the Indian nation
\nat home does not build itself into a strong and self-governing people, they can
\nexpect nothing from Englishmen in their colonies except oppression and
\ncontumely.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\n
\nOfficials
\non the Fall of Fuller<\/font><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nThe
\nseriousness of the blow which has fallen on the bureaucracy by the downfall of
\nShayesta Khan can be measured by the spite and fury which it has excited in such
\npublic organs of officialdom as the Englishman <\/i>and the Pioneer. <\/i>The
\nletter of I.C.S. to the Pioneer <\/i>which we extract in another column is a
\nmore direct and very striking indication of the feelings which it has aroused<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-132<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\nespecially
\namong the colleagues of the deposed proconsul. The Anglo-Indian press has for
\nthe most part grasped the fact that the resignation of Sir Bampfylde Fuller was
\na victory for the popular forces in
\nEastern Bengal. Had the new province allowed itself to be
\ncrushed by the repressive fury of Shayesta Khan or answered it only with
\npetitions, like a sheep bleating under the knife of the butcher, bureaucracy
\nwould have triumphed. But determined repression met by determined resistance
\nfinally made Sir Bampfylde’s position untenable. Neither Lord Minto who from the
\nfirst supported the Fullerian policy nor Mr. Morley who .has done his best to
\nshield and protect the petty tyrant in his worst vagaries, deserves the angry
\nrecriminations with which they are being assailed. They have both acted in the
\ninterests 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
\nwas a choice of errors. By maintaining their lieutenant they would have helped
\nthe revolutionary forces in the country to grow; by sacrificing him they have
\ngiven fresh vigour and self-confidence to the people in their resistance to the
\nPartition. There comes a time in all such struggles when whatever the Government
\nmay do, it cannot fail to weaken itself and strengthen the people. Such a time
\nhas come in <\/p>\n

India<\/p>\n

and all the rage of Anglo-India cannot alter the
\ninevitable march of destiny.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\n
\nCow-Killing:
\nAn Englishman’s Amusements in <\/font>
\nJalpaiguri<\/font><\/span><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n


\n <\/font> <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\nA
\n <\/span>correspondent  <\/span>writes
\n <\/span>to  <\/span>us
\n <\/span>from  <\/span>Jalpaiguri
\n: \u2014<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>An Englishman, a forester, at Jalpaiguri has shot three cows one of them
\nbelonging to the school Head Pandit. The open garden of the forester is near
\ncertain bungalows adjoining the school, and it appears that the cows strayed
\ninto the garden, whereupon the Saheb calmly proceeded to shoot them. This he did
\nlaughing and in spite of the remonstrance of another Englishman, his friend. On
\nthe Head Pandit consulting his neighbours, he was told to consider himself lucky
\nthat it was the cows and<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-133<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\nnot
\nhe whom the Saheb elected to shoot. Perceiving, the force of this remark and
\napprehensive about his service, the Pandit has swallowed and is trying to digest
\nthe loss and the mortification. I hear that when the bodies of the cows were
\nbeing taken away, the Saheb was dancing with exultation.<\/font><\/p>\n


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

 <\/p>\n

\n
\nBande
\nMataram<\/i>,
\n<\/i> <\/font>
\nAugust 20, 1906<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nNational
\nEducation received the seal of approbation from united
\nBengal at the Barisal Conference. It should be the aim
\nof the nationalists to elicit from the Congress this year a solemn expression of
\nthe national will recognising the new movement and recommending it to all <\/p>\n

India. It is possible that there may be some difficulty
\nin carrying the motion, for the small-minded and faint-hearted figure largely in
\nthe Congress ranks. At
\nBenares this element disgraced the nation by excluding
\nSwadeshi, the universal national movement, from the purview of the national
\nassembly. This time there should be no repetition of such pusillanimity. Such
\nexhibitions of moral cowardice are one reason more why the Congress should be
\nreconstituted on a basis sufficiently popular to prevent the sentiment of the
\npeople from being outraged or caricatured by self-constituted representatives.
\nIf the Congress had not been hopelessly out of date in its form and spirit, it
\nwould by this time have organised itself for work, with a department for the
\norganisation of National Education on a basis of voluntary self-taxation
\nfiguring prominently in its list of national duties.<\/font><\/p>\n


\nBande
\nMataram<\/i>,
\n<\/i> <\/font>
\nAugust 22, 1906<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nPage-134<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\n
\nNational
\nEducation and the Congress<\/font><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n