Title | Swaraj in one year |
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Publisher | Ganesh |
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Date | 1921 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 121 pages; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | DS448.G35 1921 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304490~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | Public Domain: This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 14 |
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File Name | uhlib_6409088_013.jpg |
Transcript | 8 MAHATMA GANDHI house has to divide on it, it must dividejon one issue, viz., whether Swarajya has to be gained through the councils or without the councils. If we utterly distrust the British Government and we know that they are utterly unrepentant bow can you believe that the councils will lead to Swarajya and not tighten the British hold on India ? I now come to Swadeshi. The boycott of foreign goods is included in the resolution. You have got here, I confess, an anomaly for which I am not originally responsible. But I have consented to it. I will not go into the history of how it found a place into the resolution, of which the essence is discipline and self-sacrifice. Swadeshi means permanent boycott of foreign goods. It is therefore a matter of redundancy. But I have taken it in, because I could not reject it as a matter of conscience. I know, however, it is a physical inpossibility. So long as we have to rely on the pins and needles—figurative and literal both—we cannot bring about a complete boycott of foreign goods. I do not hesitate to say this clause mars the musical harmony, if I may claim it without vanity, of the programme. I feel that those words do mar the symmetry of |