Unhappy India

UNHAPPY INDIABy the same Author : Young India The United States of America England's Debt to India The Arya Samaj The PoliticaFuturof India The Ev-olution.frt Japan The 1roblem of National Education in India"MAHATMA GANDHI The leader of the NoCooperation movement. [...] The object is to produce and perpetuate the slaveINTRODUCTION XV mentality of the subject people and to obtain the moral sanction of the rest of the world for usuring the rights properties and liberties of other peoples. [...] The Imperialists divide theselves into two parties : (a) The advocates of pure force and no nonsense; (b) The liberals who trot out the plea of trusteeship by convincing the wards ' inside and the world outside that the people are unfit to rule themselves and that the best interests of the ruled themselves demand a never-ending continuance of the trusteeship. [...] Certain theoretical conditions are laid down the fulfilment of which might lead to the ending of the period of trusteeship but the actual policy is directed to check and prevent the fulfilment of these conditions and thus a vicious circle is created by which both the people affected and the world at large are deceived. [...] The fact that the Abbe retired with a pension from the British East India Company ' in recognition of many services Le had rendered to India' may be regarded either as a testimony to the disinterested generosity of the East India Company or to the judicious patriotism of the Abbe himself." The Abbë stands convicted out of his own mouth.