Pariahs of the Empire

VIII. NON-CO-OPERATION

Non-co-operation

Mr. Montagu on the Khilafat Agitation

At the call of the country

Non-co-operation explained

Religious Authority for non-co-operation

The inwardness of non-co-operation

A missionary on non-co-operation

How to work non-co-operation

Speech at Madras

" Trichinopoly

" Calicut

" Mangalore

" Bexwada

The Congress

Who is disloyal

Crusade against non-co-operation

Speech at Muxafarbail

Ridicule replacing Repression

The Viceregal pronouncement

From Ridicule to--?

To every Englishman In India

One step enough for me

The need for humility

Some Questions Answered

Pledges broken

More Objections answered

Mr. Pennington's Objections Answered

Some doubts

Rejoinder

Two Englishmen Reply

Letter to the Viceroy--Renunciation of Medals

Letter to H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught

The Greatest thing

Mahatma Gandhi's Statement

IX. WRITTEN STATEMENT

Index

I. INTRODUCTION

After the great war it is difficult, to point out a single nation that
is happy; but this has come out of the war, that there is not a single
nation outside India, that is not either free or striving to be free.

It is said that we, too, are on the road to freedom, that it is better
to be on the certain though slow course of gradual unfoldment of freedom
than to take the troubled and dangerous path of revolution whether
peaceful or violent, and that the new Reforms are a half-way house
to freedom.

The new constitution granted to India keeps all the military forces,
both in the direction and in the financial control, entirely outside the
scope of responsibility to the people of India. What does this mean? It
means that the revenues of India are spent away on what the nation does
not want. But after the mid-Eastern complications and the fresh Asiatic
additions to British Imperial spheres of action. This Indian military
servitude is a clear danger to national interests.

The new constitution gives no scope for retrenchment and therefore no
scope for measures of social reform except by fresh taxation, the heavy
burden of which on the poor will outweigh all the advantages of any
reforms. It maintains all the existing foreign services, and the cost of
the administrative machinery high as it already is, is further
increased