Freedom Through Disobedience
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As I stand before you today, a sense of overwhelming loss overtakes me, and I can scarce give expression to what is uppermost in the minds of all and everyone of us. After a memorable battle which he gave to the Bureaucracy, Mahatma Gandhi has been seized and cast into prison; and we shall not have his guidance in the proceedings of the Congress this year. But there is inspiration for all of us in the last stand which he made in the citadel of the enemy, in the last defiance which he hurled at the agents of the Bureaucracy. To read a story equal in pathos, in dignity, and in sublimity you have to go back over two thousand years, when Jesus of Nazareth, "as one that perverted the people" stood to take his trial before a foreign tribunal.
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Freedom Through Disobedience - Chitta Ranjan Das
Freedom Through Disobedience
Freedom Through Disobedience
FREEDOM THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE
LAW AND ORDER
NATIONALISM: THE IDEAL
NON-VIOLENT NON-CO-OPERATION
FORCE AND VIOLENCE
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
REVOLUTIONS IN ENGLAND
REVOLUTIONS IN ITALY AND RUSSIA
NON-VIOLENT NON-CO-OPERATION: THE ONLY METHOD
SUCCESS OF NON-VIOLENT NON-CO-OPERATION
CHARGE OF CORRUPTING THE YOUTHS
CHARGE OF HYPOCRISY
HOW TO APPLY THE NON-VIOLENT N. C. O. METHOD
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
FOREIGN PROPAGANDA
THE GREAT ASIATIC FEDERATION
DEMANDS FOR PUNJAB WRONGS, KHILAFAT AND SWARAJ
SCHEME OF A GOVERNMENT
BOYCOTT OF COUNCILS
LABOUR ORGANISATION
WORK ALREADY TAKEN UP
BOYCOTT OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
BOYCOTT OF LAW COURTS AND LAWYERS
HINDU-MUSLIM UNITY
KHADDAR
CONCLUSION
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Freedom Through Disobedience
Chitta Ranjan Das
FREEDOM THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE
The following is the full text of the Presidential Address of Desabhandhu C. R. Das at the thirty-seventh session of the Indian National Congress held at Gaya on 26th December 1922:—
Sisters and Brothers,—
As I stand before you to-day, a sense of overwhelming loss overtakes me, and I can scarce give expression to what is uppermost in the minds of all and everyone of us. After a memorable battle which he gave to the Bureaucracy, Mahatma Gandhi has been seized and cast into prison; and we shall not have his guidance in the proceedings of the Congress this year. But there is inspiration for all of us in the last stand which he made in the citadel of the enemy, in the last defiance which he hurled at the agents of the Bureaucracy. To read a story equal in pathos, in dignity, and in sublimity you have to go back over two thousand years, when Jesus of Nazareth, as one that perverted the people
stood to take his trial before a foreign tribunal.
" And Jesus stood before the Governor: and the Governor asked him saying, Art thou the king of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayëst.
" And when he has accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
" Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?
And he answered him too never a word; insomuch that the Governor marvelled greatly.
Mahatma Gandhi took a different course. He admitted that he was guilty, and he pointed out to the public Prosecutor, that his guilt was greater than he, the Prosecutor, had alleged; but he maintained that if he had offended against the law of Bureaucracy in so offending, he had obeyed the law of God. If I may hazard a guess, the Judge who tried him and who passed a sentence of imprisonment on him was filled with the same feeling of marvel as Pontius Pilate had been.
Great in taking decisions, great in executing them, Mahatma Gandhi was incomparably great in the last stand which he made on behalf of his country. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest men that the world has ever seen. The world hath need of him and if he is mocked and jeered at by the people of importance,
the people with a stake in the country
—Scribes and Pharisees of the days of Christ he will be gratefully remembered now and always by a nation which he led from victory to victory.
LAW AND ORDER
Gentlemen, the time is a critical one and it is important to seize upon the real issue which divides the people from the Bureaucracy and its Indian allies. During the period of repression which began about this time last year, it was this issue which pressed itself on our attention. This policy of repression was supported and in some cases instigated by the Moderate Leaders who are in the Executive Government. I do not charge those who supported the Government with dishonesty or want of patriotism. I say they were led away by the battle cry of Law and Order. And it is because I believe that there is a fundamental confusion of thought behind this attitude of mind that I propose to discuss this plea of Law and Order. Law and Order
has indeed been the last refuge of Bureaucracies all over the world.
It has been gravely asserted not only by the Bureaucracy but also by its apologists, the Moderate Party, that a settled Government is the first necessity of any people and that the subject has no right to present his grievances except in a constitutional way, by which I understand in some way recognised by the constitution. If you cannot actively co-operate in the maintenance of the law of the land
they say, it is your duty as a responsible citizen to obey it passively. Non-resistance is the least that the Government is entitled to expect from you.
This is the whole political philosophy of the Bureaucracy—the maintenance of law and order on the part of the Government, and an attitude of passive obedience and non-resistance on the part of the subject. But was not that the political philosophy of every English King from William the Conqueror to James II? And was not that the political philosophy of the Romanoffs, the Hohenzollerns and of the Bourbons? And yet freedom has come, where it has come, by disobedience of the very laws