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 89 |
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File Name | uhlib_6409088_088.jpg |
Transcript | POST-GRADUATE & LAW STUDENTS 83 Government. The Congress has altered its course. The Congress has asked the nation to become introspective. The Congress has turned this searchlight inward. The Congress addresses its resolution now not to the Government but to the nation. Its prayer is addressed to you, the student world of Calcutta and to me an old man past the stage of youth. The Congress addresses its resolution and its prayers to the uncultured men of India—the people living on the field of India, to the artisans and to all those whom we consider to be the illiterate masses of India. And the question that rises before you this afternoon is what are you, the post-graduate students, going to do? What part are you going to play in this great upheaval. Are you going to be mere witnesses or are you going to be actors ? Are you going to throw yourselves in the thick of the fight and claim the laurel of victory? I hope that your decision will be sound, swift and certain, and after having come upon that decision I hope that there will be no shirking back. And I ask the students who are gathered in this theatre to burn their books and not to seek at the present moment a literary career. I ask you to work as hewers of wood |