{"id":804,"date":"2013-07-13T01:30:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=804"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:30:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:30:32","slug":"09-partition-and-petition-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/27-supplement-volume-27\/09-partition-and-petition-vol-27-supplement-volume-27","title":{"rendered":"-09_Partition and Petition.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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                                                                                                      <\/p>\n

\t\tPartition and
\nPetition<\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n                   
\n
\nT<\/font><\/b><\/span>HERE seems to be a
\nrecrudescence of the and decadent praying mood once again in certain quarters,
\nand attempts, we understand, are being made to induce the leaders of  <\/span>public opinion in the
\nmofussil to join the Calcutta clique  for <\/span>sending
\na fresh representation to the Secretary of State for India for the revocation or
\nmodification of the Partition of Bengal. The recent reply of the British Prime
\nMinister to a question put to him by Mr. O’Donnell seems to be partly responsible
\nfor
\nrecrudescence, which, we understand, however, is mainly due
\nto wire-pulling from Palace Chambers. Some of our own
\ncountrymen now in England also seem to be playing into the
\nhands of our Parliamentary friends, who are clearly anxious to
\ntheir own Government out of a very uncomfortable and undignified position in
\nwhich the present agitation in Bengal has clearly placed them. Similar hopes
\nwere held out by some of our British friends, about six months ago, and it was
\nin consequence of these that people were induced to join the last Town Hall
\ndemonstration against Partition; and it was practically stipulated that would be
\nour last prayer on this subject to the Government. The same game, however, is going to be played over again.
\nWe do not know if a Town Hall meeting will be convened for
\npurpose; but advices from England seem to hold that no public meeting would at
\nall be necessary, a carefully drawn-up petition signed by a few leading men, and
\nsubmitted, not through the local Government, because the matter affects two
\nProvinces, and  <\/span><\/i>the
\nGovernment of any of these would not be competent to receive it, but through the Government of India, would equally
\nserve the purpose; as the Government in England is said to be
\nfavourably inclined to a reconsideration of the Partition, and representation
\nfrom Calcutta would be very helpful at this moment. <\/p>\n

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

               <\/span>We
\nhave no doubt that it will be so; but why, in the name of
\ncommonest political wisdom, we ask, should we be so anxious
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nto offer this help to the Government that is clearly seeking an 
\n<\/span>honourable means of retreat from a very difficult and untenable position
\nwherein its own perversity and folly have placed it? We are all anxious to have
\nthe Partition revoked, but we are so anxious not because Partition actually
\nworks irreparable ill to the country, for the ends of the authors of this evil
\nmeasure have been completely frustrated already, and the political life of
\nBengal which it was their avowed intention to weaken or kill, has been made
\nalmost infinitely stronger than it ever was before or could possibly be in the
\nnear future, – by this very Partition itself. The outraged sentiments of the
\ncountry have found relief in the consciousness of a new power among the people.
\nOutrages wound only because they are a proof of the weakness and incapacity of
\nthe outraged; if this weakness is not felt, and this incapacity fails to be
\nestablished, the wound also ceases to exist. This has happened in Bengal, and
\nmore particularly in East Bengal in connection with this Partition outrage; and
\nthere is a growing indifference in the country as regards the fate of this
\nmeasure. People have found a larger and a more profitable object for their
\npublic life. They have commenced to grow into a vivid consciousness of their own
\nstrength; and they are, accordingly, growing more and more indifferent to what
\nthe Government may or may not do either in regard to this or to any other
\nmatter. They know and feel that their fate lies in their own hands, and in the
\nhands of God, who guides the destinies both of individuals and nations.
\n <\/p>\n

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

Bande
\nMataram, September 4, 1906<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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