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Show INDIA'S SEETHING MILLIONS DEMAND HOME RULE I BRAHMIN WOMAN I LEADS FORCES ACISTBRITl Reparation for Slaughter, Free Religion, Withdrawal of Repression Asked i BY MII.ION BRi INNER. I LONDON Feb. 6f "What India aLH jwantg immediately can be be summed , H up In two words home rule. ! bbbbI "What India wants ultimately can r bbbLI bo summed up in two more words-- I bLibbw complete Independence." dLf HbH There you have tho aspirations and rH aims ' the Indian movement from dH Mi Sarojlnl Naldu, a hlgh-casta Bbbbibb , Urahram woman, known In political A U circle as one of the chief advocates of ' Unity among her people. Leaders klfco her are slowly sounding Britain s con- ff llrol of her richest dominion. ;H Among book-lovers Mrs. Naldu is H fnmo js, as the greatest poet In English 1 verse that India has produced. Her poems, reflecting tho very soul of tho ! dlH jindu peoples, have been praised by nil critics whose opinion is worth I j while. When I talked to her, she had her L Istruight black hair brushed smoothly i j land plain! bach from her forehead, 'with no ornamentation of any kind. I She wore a golden yellow silk Jacket. l Swinging down from her loft shoulder ii dark blue silk wrap with goid i ornaments. k! j I asked her tell mo what the 350.- 000,ooe people of "British India, secth- .Ing with unrest and revolution, want. J' It seemed a large question, but she h.d tho answer. pi THINGS INDIA M HANDS "There are some things," said she. ! "that the British must do al unco If j they wisn to restore any measure of I I tranquility to India. 'First The wrongs done in Amrit- I )sur in tlie Punjab, where the British 'slaughtered India's Innocent, must be ' righted. The men who ordered the - 'shooting down of cnir people merely ! jfor congregating must be punished. I The government must make reparation. 'H I to the families of ihe slaughtered and IB I tho wronged. 'L f.H "Second There must be a with- Ibbbibb Idrawal of all repressive measures. I I'Ibbbbbb wish America could realize what Is go- iLfjfifiH ing on. The Indian native press is lla- IH bis lo suppression at any time. Tho iH Rowlatt act. ostensibly passed to sup- H press Bolshevism, really places in tho H I hands of the government autocratic H and oppressive powers. Men and wo- H men can be arrested without charge. H thrown into prison without trial and 'H kept H "Third The Moslems of India de- inand that the holy places of islam be H made safe from foreign interference H and government. That applies to Con- H 'stantlnople. to Palestine and to Megb- iH potamla. ;H "Fourth AU th... people. egard'.. ;' (I of race, religion or caste, demand a 111 declaration of rights which will give :H them the chance to lead their lives as human beings. At present there is not H even such a thing as habeas corpus H RIGHT CO DEVELOP SE1 vi s j "Wm want to evolve ulong our own ;H lines in conformity with our own H racial, social, religious and economic jH "British rule has lacked imagina-Hon. imagina-Hon. It has thought that what was good for Englishmen must be good for 11 Ind us. But has it been? Has Eng-lien Eng-lien rule been so beneficent? "According to British figures, 19.-000,000 19.-000,000 people lu Indian died of hun-ger hun-ger in the last ten years of the 19lh "Right now 70 millions do not get one sqnuro meal a day. They are aJ-ways aJ-ways on the verge of starvation, due to .high prices, taxation and other causes. "Or take our Industries. To favor the textile mills of Britain, our once great hand-weav ing industry has been , almost destroyed Onco upon a timo It gave employment to tens of thous-ai thous-ai ds of women In their own homes. It la l revive this industry that many are advocating a boycott of British or i.ither foreign -mude goods. , "Or take the matter of education. jf The British have ruled In India foi over lOo years and we have no sign J of free and compulsory education. J Only six per cent of our people ?an J barely read and write. J "And when Hindus do get to schools 'tho text books are all so written as to bbbbbbj give them what I call the slave pay-etiology. pay-etiology. They are practically taught that their history begins When Britons jH I racial pride aroused by the glories of - I their annals hundreds and hundreds of 1 ' I years before Britons ever set foot upon dH I Indian soil. dBBH UUtEl WITH BUREA1 OJRA.CY. I We have no quarrel with the Brit-lish Brit-lish race as such, but with British I bureaucracy . These permanent off I cials see the necessity of spending" millions of rupees of our tax monev iH fur military purposes, but only four iaLlBa and a half millions on education ami BaLI only one-half million on sanitation. iffH "Dou you wonder that there is dis ; LbB ease and famine? i JaBifl "Dou you wonder that there is lg .H i "But there is a new spirit astir among the hundreds of millions of jH people of India. H "It is not alone tho Hindus with d European education who are agitating t for a freer India. This movement is j ' M not confined to tho pollt Ically-mlnded i It ha.s spread and spread until it has brought Brahmin and Moslem, city dweller and peasant, high caste and low caste Into unanimity In demanding self -eov 'eminent for India." |