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Shall India Live or Die ?

1925

The Union between East and West with the peaceful exchange of complementary3 Qualities evolved by the two civilisations in separation with the proper proportion of the maintenance of Rights and the performance of Duties accurately adjusted with the spirituality of India permeating and purifying the practicality of Britain and the common sense of Britain softening the acerbity of religious diff [...] The troubles in the Panjab are the results of 1919 and the estrangement of the Sikhs once the strongest support of the British Ritj is shown by the Gurudwara mOvement and the Akali campaikns. [...] How then was India educated up to the middle of the eighteenth century and how is she being educated nor; since the middle of the nineteenth ? The space beween these two dates is a period of decay in Education; the education of the masses received its death blow in 1816 with the destruction of the village self-government 130 that of the higher classes its misdirection in 1844 when English w [...] The English " man in the street " has never heard of Jambudvipa of Aryavarta the land of the Aryans of Bharatavarsha the land of the Bhitratas. [...] The assailant must also forget the glories of the University of Baghdad and the splendid work of the Moors who carried to Europa the torch of Science rlighted in Arabia and brought about the Renaissance of that Continent darkened since by the Roman Obedence the light had been trampled out that had shone in Greece in Egypt and along the borders of the Mediterrnean in southern Ita
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Pages
188
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145152
Segment Pages Author Actions
Foreword
i-iv Annie Besant view
Introduction
1-32 Annie Besant view
Chapter I Education Past and Present
33-58 Annie Besant view
Chapter II The Poverty of the Masses
59-92 Annie Besant view
Chapter III Village Industries
93-110 Annie Besant view
Chapter IV The Remedy is Self-Rule
111-141 Annie Besant view
Chapter V Conclusion an Appeal to the Nation
142-147 Annie Besant view
Appendices
148-159 Annie Besant view
Index
1-25 Annie Besant view

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