Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-02-27
AN HINDU REVIEW.
Suggestions on Life in India by
M. G. Sinha.
FIST PAPER.

No news was more delightful
and satisfactory than that in
forming us of Bengal conceiving
the idea of establishing a nation
al university. There can be
nothing better than this for the
welfare of the nation. We had
been under an overwhelming de-
lusion that the brains and minds
of one nation can be safely
moulded and guided by another
nation. There could be no
worse folly than that of entrust-
ing the task of public education
to aliens, whose manners Gus
toms, traditions and mode of rea-
soning are different from our own
and whose political, econ omical,
military and commercial inter-
ents are entirely antagonistic to
our we'll being. To carry Oh the
national affairs of India by for
eigners is an impossibility. Two
interests cannot be served at the
same time.
The people of India want to
control their home and foreign
policy in their own interest.
The Englishmen naturally want
to subordinate the interests, well
fare and rights of the Indians to
their own. The Indians want to
love their own country-the Eng
l1shmen want to make them love
England. The Indians want to
restore their industry to its former
position and give it a bounty by
promising and encouraging it
the Englishmen want to retain
the monopoly of their trade and
further it by all means possible.
The Indians long to worship
their own national fag-the
English want them to worship
the Union Jack.
The present crisis in India is
due to the clash of principles of
self-detense and self-propagation,
, and is crisis to be handled with
all the gravity it deserves. Moth
!, ing could illustrate this better
: than the late singing of. Bonde-
Matorom. The people sing
Bonde- Matorom to show theil
love and patriotism toward coun-
try. The English want to sup
press this by any means they can
Now it depends on the people tc
find out whether they can safely
! trust the education of their chill
9 dren to the agency of men who's
:, interest lies in suppressing ant
) demoralizing all noble ambitions
= in the minds of the Indian race
- If the answer is no, then ther
- >, is no other course but that o
. taking the education of our boy'
. in our own hands and training
:. them according to the best ligh
- we have, for let us remembe
= - that the light of ones own ey
y y is far more desirable than tn
y y light of the two eyes of the neigh
- Dor, even if the neighbor had a
honest motive in meddling in th
~ ~ affairs of the one-eyed man.
- The need of national univer
sity is great, because there is n
:. existing university in India whic
y u imparts education suited to th
~. ~, needs of the country, and, ther'
y fore, the sooner we establish OF
-, university the better for 1ndi'
y What were the motives to e.
g tablish existing universitie
, The motives were largely eccle
-, ~ iastical and political-the pril
~ ~, ciple one being to change youu
- mems religion, or for preparir
" . them for subordinate service
AZ the government and make the,
~ intelligent interpreters. II
course of study followed is th
of languages, philosophy
history-commercial, technic
II, and scientific courses are conspi
uous bv their absence.
In the modern national un
versity the course of study has
be broadened so as to include tt
physical: and sociological science
modern languages (Germa
French and Japanese) and !
lother branches of learnin
It whether pursued for the acqui
..s s. ton of knowledge alone, tor the