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Indian Nationalism - Its Origin, History, And Ideals (Paperback)
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Indian Nationalism - Its Origin, History, And Ideals (Paperback)
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INDIAN NATIONALISM - 1914-1918 - PREFATORY NOTES ONSIRIPERIALISM
AND NATIONALISM - IT is my good fortune to have a friend. Pro
foundly learned in the earliest mythologies, he lives for the more
part in that remote and unfrequented darkness which we conveniently
designate pre-history. The other day he came near to the haunts of
modern men, and said to me something like this At first the Empire
was a mere supremacy. This form of Imperialism became obsolete,
-supremacy was given, not a moral content, but a moral objective.
Of this half-moralised conception, Lord Milner is the principal
representative. It marked a step in the right direction, but it is
not sufficient unto. the needs of to-day, for it can hardly consist
with the newly-emergent claims of Nationality. We must make it
quite clear, in words and deeds, that the norm, the telos, of the
Empire is something more than a benevolent supremacy, -is a vital
synthesis of free peoples, an integration of Nationalities in and
through Freedom. If we do not do this at once, we shall prepare for
ourselves much trouble. I listened and I agreed. Years ago the new
Imperialism which my friend desiderates had been the burden of an
evenings talk with John MacNeill, and I had heard him say, We will
listen to you me will not listen to any English politician. I had
resumed the story in many a letter to another Irishman, -in letters
which became unavailingly known in Downing Street. Whispers from a
new life in West Africa had reached me. I had listened to Eastern
men while they exhibited to me the difference between the England
that spoke through Whitehall and the England they had been taught
to trust. I had been told of a continent in mourning when Tilakwas
imprisoned and ablaze with bonfires when he was released. I knew of
disappointment in Burma, of resentment in Ceylon, of smothered
dislike in Egypt. What could I do but agree with my friend 4 He had
told the truth. Turning an occasional eye from let us say Attys to
Tilak, he had discerned the Empires vital need. Now the opportunity
has come to me to write a few words prefatory to this book on
Indian Nationalism. My task is an easy one. I have to do little
more than emphasise the large conception towards which the authors
have worked. That conception makes the book much more than a plea
for Indian Nationalism. It is virtually a plea for a new
Imperialism, and it marks a new stage in the development of our
doctrine of the Empire...
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