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India in Bondage - Her Right to Freedom
1928
Summary
India has created and to-day possesses archtecture equal to the finest produced by Greece — as witness the Pearl Mosque the Kutab Miner and the Royal Palace of Delhi and the Taj Mahal of Agra the Jain Temples at Abu the rock-cut Temples at Eliora the Palace at Deeg in Rajputana the Great Vishnu Temple at Siirangam and the great Pagoda at Tanjore. [...] During the days of chattel-slavery in the Southern States of the American Union so long as the world knew of slavery only through the representations of it given by the slave-holders the impression was common that slavery was a beneficent institution. [...] Sz.911k.:.41110.1"A VISIT TO INDIA : WHAT BRITISH HOLZ =ANS 9 If the English are living in ease and luxury. howl are the people of the land living ? Who pays for these fine buildings that the British rulers of the land occupy and take the credit for ? And the railways the telegraphs and the rest ? Do the British ? Or are they paid for out of the taxes of a nation which is perhaps the most pover [...] It is not the India which the usual traveller sees folloing the common routes of travel stopping at the leading hotels conducted after the manner of London or Paris and mingling with the English.lords of the country. [...] But this is India from the inside it is the India of the Indian people of the men women and children to whom the country of right belongs who pay the taxes and bear the burdens and support the costly government carried on by foreigners.
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