British Rule in India: With a Plea for Home Rule Or Self-Government (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from British Rule in India: With a Plea for Home Rule or Self-Government

The Hon. Mr. M. A. Jinnah, president of the all-k India Moslem League, held at Lucknow during Christ mas, 1915, said on self-government for India: Leav I ing aside hairbrained twaddle of the tribe of scientific i peddlers who love to sit in judgment on the East and ape political philosophy, no man with the least pre tensions to common sense can affect to maintain that the Indian humanity is 'stamped with a ruthless psychol ogy and cramped for ever within the prison of its skull. If the Indians are not the pariahs of Nature, if they are not out of the. Pale or operations of the laws that gov em mankind elsewhere, if their minds can grow in' knowledge and power and think and plan and organize together for common needs of the present and for com mon hopes of the future, then the only future for them is self-government, i. E., the attainment of the power to apply, through properly organized channels, the common national will and intelligence to the needs and tasks of their national existence. The cant of unfit ness must die. The laws of Nature and the doctrines of common humanity are not'different in the East.

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