The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-07
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ANTAGONlZES LEADERS

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But many thoughtful Indians were
filled With fear and anger. Were tho
foreign rulers going 10 show off
themselves like thai7 And were tho
indians never going 10 have a share
In tho government Of their own coun.
tryf Why shouldn't India have the
same rights as Canada and Aus
sraiia,
The leaders OF educated India put
these uncomfortable questions 10
Lord Curron. who lost patience and
dubbed them dangerous sgitators and
sedit,on mongers. His iieutensnts.
provincial governors like Sir Barn.
fyld Fuller Of East Bengal. went
many steps further than Lord Cur.
son himself In the direction OF re-
preston.
Depending upon ,hs loyalty. partly
real and partly professcd, OF the In.
dian ra3as. the government started 10
treat most sserniy the educated In
dams who began 20 demand homo
rule or swaraj. M they called n.
Two results followed from this:
~ all the more thoughtful and mod
srase leaders were jailed. deportcd and
otherwise siienced and paraiyxed. GU
. young militant revolutionary party
sprang up and became exceedingly
popular among tho masses. and even
among certain princes. Bombs and
pistols were used by revoiuiionaries
TO terrorise the British officials and
paraiyxe the police. beginning in 1905.
The retaliation was further rcpres
sion. A. the same time. however. car
tain concessions. civil and political.
were given TO the Indians. for In
stance q few high offices were for
the educated Indians.
REVOLUTION NOuRIsHED
IN FOREIGN LANDS
BY 1911. II seemed at last that the
government had altogether suppress
ed revoiuiionism. The country was
still. dead still. But what had hap
pened was that the revolution had
been temporarily driven out Of India
to foreign countries.
Beginning with 1908. Indian revo-
exiles began TO cmigrste to
all corners OF the esrth- They went
to every country OF Europe-France.
Italy. Germany. Austria.
They came 20 the United States.
They lodged themselves In Japan and
China
Tho present Indian revolution was
thus nourishcd In foreign lands. And
II IN no secret that during the world
war. Indian revolusionists made ev.
cry possible use OF the difficulties Of
the British.
believe firmly that the British
had pretty well realized their peril
In India In 1917 when tho present sec.
rotary OF state. an able and liberal
man. Mr.. Montague. put forth his
scheme OF reform OF the Indian gov.
eminent along democratic lines. Eng.
lish tories were. OF course. sorely
with even this tardy pro
But they would not have
dared to act against the reform
policy. had II not been for the Illusion
created among English tories that
Woodrow Wilson was backing them
in anything they might do In India
or Egypt.
POLICIES AFFECTED
INDIAN TRENDS
on the one hand Wilsonian slogan
Of self determination" melted the In.
dian nationalists to further efforts.
And on the other. Mr.. Wilson's stern
OF Indian nationalism led
the Angio.Indian officials to believe
that America would approve British
rule In India. no matter In what
form.
That. I believe, accounts for the
manner in which Gen. Dyer and his
chief Sir O'Dwyer. ruler OF the Pun
lab. put down the nationalist agita.
lion In the Amritsar massacre OF 1919. !
That was the turning point. For a
India was paralyzed. Then
A man arose who defied the govern
Gandhi had been trained as a non.
violent revolutionist In South Africa.
in the struggle to maintain the hui
man rights OF Indian laborers there,
against Boer and British working.
men. Gandhi's movement of paralyz-
ing the British government by boy.
rotting all British trade. and all Brit
sh institutions has spread all over
The land. even In the most backward
villages. Gandhi IL strenuously op. !
posed to violence. altho he exhorts