Word: swaraj
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...Calcutta, Dacca, Barisal, Mymen-singh and numerous other places, he stirred the people to revolt nonviolently against the British. The Swaraj* movement began. He started a newspaper, the Narayana, to aid the cause. He attacked the white officials as a class and he attacked most bitterly the domineering merchants who had, he alleged, come to India for ill-got gain. But his attachment to the King-Emperor never wavered in the most difficult moments. All that he wanted was freedom for Indians within "the most glorious empire in history...
...soon realized the ineffectiveness of non-cooperation. He broke with Gandhi, started a cooperation movement with the object of entering the Councils to prevent them from functioning. Then he began to see the futility of his own tactics, in view of sporadic terrorist activities. He saw that Swaraj could be obtained only through supporting the dyarchical system and the lawful suppression of violence. He asked the Government to cooperate by abrogating its arbitrary powers to arrest and punish agitators. Gandhi joined him last autumn, and non-coöperation came...
Beyond. With the death of Das, what is to become of Swaraj? It was, and probably still is, a vital question for all Anglo-Indians. Will Swaraj and its non-violence fall by the red sword of violent revolution? Who could stop it? Not Gandhi, for he has lost most of his following. But perhaps the Pandit Motilal Nehru, the next greatest disciple of Swaraj and always the most formidable intellect of the party...
...villages. It was a task the very nature of which must take generations to accomplish. But he had lived in an epoch when the East was striving in an economic sense to join with the West on equal terms. Vaguely, dimly, confusedly, the masses who had heard of Swaraj understood what the passing of the great leader signified. And if they were equally bewildered at the presence of numerous sahibs at the funeral, centuries of submission to authority had taught them to admire its quality...
...resolutions were then moved; one calling upon the Government to accept the offer of C. R. Das, a leader of the Indian Swaraj (home rule) movement, to cooperate with the Indian Government; the other, a motion expressing the belief that the Sudan question (TIME, Oct. 6) should be settled by the League of Nations and that Britain should give Egypt full independence...