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India in Bondage. Her Right to Freedom
1929
Summary
(4) The fact that India is the own country of the Indian people makes it inevitable that if they ruled the country they would do it primarily in the interest of India primarily for the benefit of India as every country in the world ought to be ruled in the interest of its own people and not that of foreigners ; whereas the British because they are foreign and their interests are foreign in [...] India has created and to-day possesses archtecture equal to the finest produced by Greece — as witness the Pearl Mosque the Kutab Minar and the Royal Palace of Delhi and the Taj Mahal of Agra the JaM Temples at Abu the rock-cut Temples at Ellora the Palace at Deeg in Rajputana the Great Vishnu Temple at Srirangam and the great Pagoda at Tanjore. [...] 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. [...] But the petitioners were thwarted (and at the same time the world was deceived) by the unjust action of Great Britain in not allowing India although ostensibly a member of the League of Nations to send representatives to the Conference held under the auspices of the League ; but foisting on the Conference as scalled representatives of India men appointed not by the Indian people at all but [...] If in the future the spirit of freedom is to make any headway among the nations by far the most important single thing to be done is the creation of a world-wide public opinion which will condemn and drive out of existence the shocking spectacle of the oldest and second largest civilized nation in the world held in sujection by a foreign sword.
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