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Indian Unrest

1910

The fact that Poona is one focus of sedition has been attributed in this volume to the survival among the Maratha Brahmins of the recollection that far into the eighteenth century.Poona was the capital of a theocratic State in which behind the Throne of the Peshwas both spiritual and secular authority were concentrated in the hands of the Brahmins.'? [...] That does not put an end to the administration but it creates endless complications in the work of adminstration and if these complications are created in every part of the country the administration will have been brought to a deadlock and made none the less impossible for the primary thing is the prestige of the Government and the boycott strikes at the root of that prestige. [...] These will suffice to show what the freedom of the Press stood for in India in a country where there is an almost superstitious reverence for and faith in the printed word where the influence of the Press is in proportion to the ignorance of the vast majority of its readers. [...] The fashion of the day is for religious revivals " in which the worship of Kali the sanguinary goddess of destrution or the cult of Shivaji-Maharaj the Mahratta chietain who humbled in his day the pride of the alien coquerors of Hindustan plays an appropriately conspicuous part. [...] With the development of the great administrative sevices with the substitution of English for the verncular tongues as the only official language with the rmodelling of judicial administration and procedure on British lines with the growth of the liberal professions and of the Press their influence constantly found new fields of activity whilst through the old traditional channels it
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Pages
387
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.144306
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I. A General Survey
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Chapter II. Swaraj on the Platform and in the Press
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Chapter III. A Hindu Revival
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Chapter IV. Brahmanism and Disaffection in the Deccan
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Chapter V. Poona and Kolhapur
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Chapter VI. Bengal Before the Partition
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Chapter VII. The Storm in Bengal
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Chapter VIII. The Punjab and the Arya Samaj
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Chapter IX. The Position of the Mahomedans
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Chapter X. Southern India
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Chapter XI. Revolutionary Organizations Outside India
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Chapter XII. The Indian National Congress
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Chapter XIII. Constitutional Reforms
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Chapter XIV. The Depressed Castes
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Chapter XV. The Native States
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Chapter XVI. Cross-Currents
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Chapter XVII. The Growth of Western Education
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Chapter XVIII. The Indian Student
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Chapter XIX. Some Measures of Educational Reform
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Chapter XX. The Question of Religious Education
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Chapter XXI. Primary Education
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Chapter XXII. Swadeshi and Economic Progress
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Chapter XXIII. The Financial and Fiscal Relations Between India and Great Britain
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Chapter XXIV. The Position of Indians in the Empire
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Chapter XXV. Social and Official Relations
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Chapter XXVI. The Government of India
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Chapter XVII. Conclusions
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Notes
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Index
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