{"id":389,"date":"2013-07-13T01:27:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=389"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:27:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:27:42","slug":"067-a-statement-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/01-bande-mataram-volume-01\/067-a-statement-vol-01-bande-mataram-volume-01","title":{"rendered":"-067_A Statement.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

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

\n <\/p>\n

\n                        <\/font><\/span>
\n
\nM<\/font><\/span>R.<\/font><\/b>
\nJohn Morley has committed himself in the House of Commons to a trenchant and
\nunqualified statement that the whole blame for the disturbances in East Bengal
\nlies upon the Hindus who, by a violent and obstreperous boycott attended with
\ncoercion and physical force, have irritated the Mahomedans into revolt. Whether
\nMr. Morley made this statement out of a sweet trustfulness in the man on the
\nspot or relying upon his philosophical judgment and innate powers of reasoning
\ndoes not concern us at all. Everyone knows that the statement is untrue. The
\nboycott was no doubt the final cause of the hooliganism in the East just as the
\nRussian revolutionary movement was the final cause of the excesses of the Black
\nHundred, but it as in no way the immediate and efficient cause. It was the final
\ncause in this sense that its first success compelled Sir Bampfylde Fuller to
\nlook about for a counteracting influence and he found it in the Nawab of Dacca
\nand the use that could be made of the Nawab’s position to help on a breach
\nbetween the Mahomedans and Hindus. That is the whole and sole connection of
\nboycott with the Mymensingh disturbances. The rest followed by a natural course
\nof evolution. Sir Bampfylde favoured the Mahomedans and depressed the Hindus,
\nthe Nawab excited his co-religionists against their fellow-countrymen. There was
\nno concealment about this policy, no pretences. Sir Bampfylde Fuller openly
\ndeclared that of his two wives the Mahomedan was his favourite and his
\nfavouritism was gross, open, palpable. He flourished it in the face of the
\npublic instead of concealing it. The Nawab of Dacca has also openly preached to
\nhis co-religionists about the wrongs they have suffered at the hands of the
\nHindus and called upon them to separate themselves from that evil and injurious
\nconnexion. There has been no concealment whatever about his anti-Hindu campaign.
\nAfter the disappearance of Sir Bampfylde from the scene of his exploits, the
\nphilo-Mahomedanism of the<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/h2>\n

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\n

\nShillong
\nGovernment was no longer openly flourished in the face of the public but it was
\nsteadily continued in practice. The alliance of Anglo-India with the Nawab was
\nfrom the beginning made the most of by the Englishman <\/i>which for some time
\ncarried 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
\nthe first Mymensingh disturbances, the Comilla riots and finally the supreme
\nconflagration that started from Jamalpur. That conflagration was brought about
\nby Maulavis preaching outrage and plunder in the name of the Nawab of Dacca and
\nthe Government, an imputation which the Nawab of Dacca has made no attempt to
\nrepudiate, though, it is said, he has been challenged to do so in answer to his
\nhollow professions of a desire to bring about amity between the two communities,
\nwhile the Shillong Government has repudiated it only tardily and indirectly if
\nat all, and only after the full mischief had been done. In all the incitements
\nurged by the Maulavis and by the authors of the notorious Red Pamphlet, there
\nhas been no mention of a violent enforcement of the boycott on the Mahomedans,
\nneither has any such connexion been established by any of the judicial
\nproceedings which have hitherto been concluded. The theory of Mr. John Morley is
\ntherefore a dead thing and of no farther interest to any human being.<\/font><\/p>\n


\n           
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>Of course the bureaucracy will go on playing with the bones of this dead
\nscarecrow; it will wage war on Swadeshism on the plea that it leads to disorder;
\nbut that is only because, like all bureaucracies, it is sublimely indifferent to
\nreason and fact and public opinion. It has served its turn by the fiction which
\nit foisted through the mouth of Honest John on a loudly applauding though
\nsomewhat befogged House of Commons and it does not care even if the fiction is
\ndisproved a thousand times over. It will go on acting as if the fiction were a
\nfact. We do not see therefore the utility of the statement which a majority of
\nthe Bengal leaders have published and which we hear is to be telegraphed or has
\nbeen telegraphed to England. If the object is to set ourselves right in the
\nopinion of the world, well, that is an innocent amusement. If it is to convince
\nMr. John Morley, it is a futility. It is absurd to suppose that Mr. John Morley
\nat his age<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/h4>\n

\nPage-403<\/span><\/h4>\n
\n

is going to allow himself to be convinced. He is far too
\nold 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
\nofficialdom sure to deny. Beyond that the statement, a very able one in its way,
\nmerely encourages the consumption of stationery, patronises a printing-press,
\nstartles the Empire and enriches the Telegraph Office. Was
\nit worth while?<\/font><\/p>\n


\nBande
\nMataram<\/i>,
\n<\/i> <\/font>June 6, 1907<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/h4>\n

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