The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-18
THE FUTURE RESULTS OF
BRITISH RULE IN INDIA


Der of troops might be diminished in direct pro-
portion to their effectiveness"
We know that the municipal organization and
the economical basis of the village communities
has been broken up, but their worst feature, the
dissolution of society into stereotype and dis
connected atoms, has survived their vitality.
The village isolation produced the absence of
roads in India and the absence of roads
perpetuated the village isolation. On this
plan a community existed with given scale of
low conveniences, almost without intercourse
with other villages, without the desires and ef-
forts indispensable to social advances. The
British having broken up this self-sufficient
inertia of the villages railways will provide the
new want of communication and intercourse.
Besides, zone of the effects of the railway
system will be to bring into every village af-
fected by it such knowledge of the contriv-
ances and appliances of other countries, and
such means of obtaining them, as will first put
the hereditary and stipendiary village artisan
ship of India to full proof of its capabilities,
and then supply its defects" Chapman, the
Cotton and Commerce of India.)
l know that the English millocracy intend to
endow India with railways with the exclusive
view of extracting at diminished expenses the
Cotton and other raw materials for their manu-
features. But when you have once introduced
machinery into the locomotion of a country,
which possesses iron and Goals, you are unable
to Withhold it from its fabrication. You cannot
maintain net of railways over an immense
country without introducing all those industrial
processes necessary to meet the immediate and
current wants of railway locomotion, and out OF
which there must grow the application of ma
chnery to those branches of industry not i'm
mediately connected with railways. The rail-
NKvay- will in Tndia
truly the forerunner of modern industry This
is the more certain as the Hindoos are allowed
by British authorities themselves to possess
particular aptitude for accommodating them
selves to entirely new labor, and acquiring the
requisite knowledge of machinery Ample proof
of this fact is afforded by the capacities and ex-
pertness of the native engineers in the Calcutta
mint, where they have been for years employed
in working the steam machinery, by the natives
attached to the several steam engines in the
Hurdwar coal districts, and by other instances.
Mr. Campbell himself, greatly influenced as he
is by the prejudices of the East India company,
is obliged to avow "that the great mass of the
Indian people possesses a great industrial en-
ergy, is we'll fitted to accumulate capital and
remarkable for mathematical clearness of
head and talent for figures and exact sciences"
Their intelects," he says, "are excellent"
Modern industry, resulting from the railway
System, will dissolve the hereditary divisions
of labor, upon which rest the Indian castles,
those decisive impediments to Indian progress
and Indian power.
All the English bourgeoise may be forced to
do will neither emancipate nor materially mend
the social condition of the mass of the people,
depending not only the development of the
productive power, but of their appropriation by
the people. But what they will not fail to do
is to lay down the material premises for BOTH
Has the bourgeoisie ever done more? Has it
ever affected progress without dragging in
dividuals and people through blood ans, dirt,
through misery and degradation?
The Indians will not reap the fruits of the
new elements of society scattered among them
by the British bourgeoisie, till in Great Britain
itself the now ruling classes shall have been
supplanted by the industrial proletariat, or till
the Hindoos themselves shall have grown strong
enough to throw off the English yoke alto
gether. At all events, we may safely expect to
see, at more or less remote period the regen-
GRAFTON of that great and interesting country,
whose gentle natives are to use the expression
of Prince Soltykow, even in the most inferior
classes, "plus fins ct plus adroits que les Ital-
lens whose submission even is counterbalanced
by certain calm nobility, who notwithstand-
ing their natural Iangor, have astonished the
DIlGlsH OlllCeTS Dy Cnelr bravery, whose coun-
try has been the source of our languages, our
religions, and who represent the type of the
ancient German in the Jat, and the type of the
ancient Greek in the Brahmn.
cannot part with the subject of India with
out some concluding remarks.
The profound hypocrisy and inherent bar
barism of bourgeois-civilizatio lies unveiled
before our eyes, turning from it's home where
it assumes respectable forms, to the colonies,
where it goes naked. They are the defenders
of property, but did any revolutionary party
ever originate agrarian revolutions like those
in Bengal, in Madras, and in Bombay? Did
they not in India, to borrow an expression of
that great robber, Lord Give himself, resort
to atrocious extortion, when simple corruption
could not keep pace with their rapacity? While
they prated in Europe about the involable
sancity of the national debt, did they not con-
fiscate in India the dividends of the rayahs,
who had invested their private savings in the
Companys own funds. While they combated
the French revolution under the pretext of
defending "our holy religion" did they not for
bid, at the same time, Christianity to be pro-
pagated in India, and did they not, in order
to make money out of the pilgrims steaming
to the temples of Orissa and Bengal, take up
the trade in the murder and prostitution per-
petrated in the temple of Juggernaut? These
are the men of Property, Order, Family, and
Religion"
The devastating effects of English industry,
when contemplated with regard to India,
country vast as Europe, and containing $50
millions of acres, are palpable and confounding
But we must not forget that they are only the