The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-20
Three Dominant Cries
Call All Castles and
Races TO the Standard
of Freedom Educa-
tion, Home Industry
and Government.
BY BASANTA KOOMAR ROY.

az OCCAo Va th0 PiC0Cht
Of 100000 Moplahs in India
were sown when India was
conquered by the British more by
cunning than by courage. Enslaved
India rose in revolt in 1887. The
leader was the Mahommedan EN-.
peror Bahadur Shah. Great Hindu
leaders like the RAM Of Jahnsi.
Mana Shaheb and Yantia Topi
fought side by side with their Ma
hommedah compatriots to make
India free. India was about to win,
but the treachery Of q few Indian
princes doomed her into temporary
defeat.
After the storm and the stress of
this terrible war India went to
sleep: until Lord Curzon. by his
high-handed methods Of admins
tration, dashed her into a newer
consciousness.
India has been in a state Of mas
cent revolution for the last sixteen
years--since October Is, 1906. For
It was on this date that Lord Cur
xon partitioned the province of Ben
gal in two. But he, by this act.
united all India as one. and India
saw the beginning of the modern
revolutionary movement.
am often asked in America
"why should India revolt against
the British ruler" often answer
by asking: why did America re-
volt in 1776? Would not America
revolt If she were conquered by
Japan or reconquered by England"
In fact. the grievances Of Amer
lea, as recorded In the immortal
Declaration Of Independence are
mere pin-pricks compared to the
wrongs India Is suffering from the
British occupation Of this ancient
land.
WHY INDIA REBELS.
Numerous. indeed. are the charges,
but there are three dominant cries
that are rending the Indian firma-
ment today. These cries embrace
the wrongs in general. and they are
SIDHA (education). SWADESHI
encouragement Of home industries)
and SwARAJ (self-government)
There Is not q country on the
face of the EARTH" writes Mr.. Cham
berlain, the American historian OF
Indian education, where education
had an earlier origin or exercised a
more lasting influence than in
India"
Period to period, India, before
the advent of the British. was be-
hind no other country in its ef-
ficiency of educational system.
Every village had q schoolhouse,
and children were given education
free, at the expense Of the prince
or the landlord. Today In the
third decade of the twentieth CEN
fury so per cent of the children OF
school ago are growing without any
education at all. About 80 per cent
of the people live in villages and yet
there are no schools in four villages
out Of five.
There is no FREQ and compulsory
system Of primary education. This
system Is prevalent in such Indian
states as Baroda. Mysone and Ira
vancore.
In British India, after $50 years
Of British rule. only ten men out OF
q hundred, and only one woman out
of $50 can read and write. And the
system Of education Is literally do
humanizing. The British schools
and colleges are nothing moro than
factories to turn out clerks and &C
countants to carry on the govern
ment.
GANDHTS BOYCOTT CALL.
Hence, Mahatma Gandhi has
asked for tho boycott Of British
schools and colleges. Many govern
ment educational institutions are
being nationalized, and numerous
national schools and colleges are
dotting the country.
The cry Of Swadeshi is for the de-
velopment Of indigenous Industries
and general economic betterment.
It is a similar cry to the America
first of the Americans. When the
consciousness of the economic
wrongs become strong in the minds
Of the colonial leaders of thought,
the American Revolution followed
as a natural result. The story Of
tho ways and means by which In
dia's industries were ruined by the
British IL too long and CHASTITY read
ing to be narrated here. The fol-
lowing from Mills History of Brit
ish India" will give but faint idea
of tho real state of affairs:
The cotton and silk goods Of
India UP to the period 1913 A. ID.
could be sold for q profit in tho
British market at a price from so
to go per cent lower than those fab
ricated in England. II consequently
became necessary to protect the lat