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Builders of Modern India. Gopal Krishna Gokhale. His life and Speeches

1933

But by degrees Es confidence in the young man grew; and Gokhale was entrusted with the work of drafting weighty memorials to the Government one of which he had to finish at one almost continuous sitting of twenty-two hours." SECRETARY OF THE SARVAJANIK SABHA Ranade made Gokhale one of the secretaries of the Sarvajanik Sabha of Poona which was at that time the chief political association in Indi [...] The constitution of the society provided for a double system of control partly through the board of life-members and partly through the council of the society. [...] And to Dadabhai Naoroji and the earliest band of Indian reformers that worked with him belongs the credit of understanding aright the true meaning of the new order of things and the possibilities that it implied for their countrymen and of throwing themselves heart -and soul into the work of realising those possibilities in practice. [...] In the old days the Hindus had freely joined in the celebration of Muharram; but the rising tide of Maratha nationality made the orthodox Hindu party more and more restive at such fraternisation and more and more insistent in their opposition to the slaughter of the cow—the Hindu sacred animal—by MuFalr-rans. [...] As Tilak centred his orthodoxy of Hindu belief and his revival of the Maratha spirit around a n w symbolism in the worship of the image of Ganpati Gokhale was more and more effectually impressed with the need for dispensing with such symbolism and for making the Congress—and later the new Councils of the MintMorley reforms—the real focus of Indian nationality.
history
Pages
213
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144973
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ix John S. Hoyland view
I Early Years
1-20 John S. Hoyland view
II Beginnings of Political Leadership
21-35 John S. Hoyland view
III The Welby Commission and after
36-66 John S. Hoyland view
IV Work in the Bombay Legislative Council
67-88 John S. Hoyland view
V 1902
89-98 John S. Hoyland view
VI 1903
99-117 John S. Hoyland view
VII 1905
118-124 John S. Hoyland view
VIII 1905
125-141 John S. Hoyland view
IX 1907-1909
142-153 John S. Hoyland view
X The Minto-Morley Reforms
154-160 John S. Hoyland view
XI 1910
161-168 John S. Hoyland view
XI Closing Years
169-185 John S. Hoyland view
XII Gokhale’s Place in History
186-193 John S. Hoyland view
Appendix
194-198 John S. Hoyland view
Index
199-200 John S. Hoyland view
Backmatter
i-iv John S. Hoyland view

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