India. The patriotic Indian must recognise the grave
danger lurking in every element of Western influence, must hate it,
and must be on his guard against it.
India ought to be made truly Indian. There is no place for
Europeans in the country. Indians can manage everything far better
than Europeans can. The British Government, Missions, European
trade and Western influence of every kind, are altogether unhealthy
in India. Everything should belong to the Indians themselves.
Hence it is a religious duty to get rid of the European and all the
evils that attend him. The better a man understands his religion,
the more clear will be his perception that Europeans and European
influence must be rooted out. All means for the attainment of this
end are justifiable. As Krishna killed Kamsa, so the modern Indian
must kill the European demons that are tyrannically holding India
down. The bloodthirsty goddess Kali ought to be honoured by the
Indian patriot. Even the Baghavad Ghita was used to teach murder.
Lies, deceit, murder, everything, it was argued, may be rightly
used.
Not till some years later did a Committee, presided over by a British
High Court judge sent out from England for the purpose, fully explore
the many ramifications of a revolutionary movement which had one of its
head centres in London, until the murder of Sir W. Curzon-Wylie by an
Indian student during a crowded reception at the Imperial Institute
aroused the attention of the authorities to the activities of the "India
House," and Mr. Krishnavarma, its familiar genius, had to transfer to
Paris his notorious paper, the _Indian Sociologist_, in which he openly
glorified murder. The "Sedition Committee's" Report was only made public
in 1918, and if the action taken upon it by the Government of India was
to furnish the occasion for another popular explosion different in
character from, but no less formidable than, the explosion which
followed the Partition of Bengal, the facts which it marshalled and the
conclusions which it drew from them with judicial soberness have never
been seriously challenged. It found that the long series of crimes of
which it recorded the genesis and growth had been "directed towards one
and the same objective, the overthrow by force of British rule in
India," and nothing revealed more clearly the mainspring of the movement
than the statistics given as
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