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 60 |
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File Name | uhlib_6409088_059.jpg |
Transcript | 54 MAHATMA GANDHI during my five years' stay in India and it was my faith in our ancient civilisation—it was my faith in our simplicity, it is my faith in inborn religious instincts of every Indian be he a Hindu or be he a Mahomedan, Christian, Parsi or a Jew—it is that faith in me which has sustained me throughout all the dark days, of scoffing and scepticism and of opposition. I know that opposition stares you and stares me in the face even to-day. We have just broken the ground but it is true that if we are going to win this great battle that you the people of Calcutta commenced in September of last year—if we are going to win this great battle we shall have to continue as we have begun in full faith. I am not ashamed to repeat before you who seem to be nurtured on modern traditions—who seem to be filled with the writings of modern writers, I am not ashamed to repeat before you that this is a religious battle. I am not ashamed to repeat before you that this is an attempt to revolutionise the political outlook—that this is an attempt to spiritualise our politics. And the more we have of it, I assure you the greater progress we shall make towards our goal. And it is because I believe that the mass mind of |