The Case For India
by Annie Besant
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About this eBook
- Author
- Besant, Annie, 1847-1933
- Title
- The Case for India
- Credits
- Jonathan Ingram, Asad Razzaki, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 12820
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12820
- Release Date
- July 5, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE CASE FOR INDIA — THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY ANNIE BESANT AT THE THIRTY-SECOND INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS HELD AT CALCUTTA 26TH DECEMBER 1917
- 2.Table of Contents
- 3.Presidential Address — GONE TO THE PEACE.
- 4.CHAPTER I. — PRE-WAR MILITARY EXPENDITURE.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — CAUSES OF THE NEW SPIRIT IN INDIA. — THE AWAKENING OF ASIA. — DISCUSSIONS ABROAD ON ALIEN RULE AND IMPERIAL RECONSTRUCTION. — LOSS OF BELIEF IN THE SUPERIORITY OF WHITE RACES — THE AWAKENING OF THE MERCHANTS. — THE AWAKENING OF INDIAN WOMANHOOD. — THE AWAKENING OF THE MASSES.
- 6.CHAPTER III. — WHY INDIA DEMANDS HOME RULE. — I. THE VITAL REASON. — What is a Nation ? — The Cry for Self-Rule. — Stunting the Race . — India’s Rights . — II. THE SECONDARY REASONS. — Tests of Efficiency . — A Change of System Needed . — Non-Official Anglo-Indians . — The Re-action on England . — The First Test Applied . — Give Indians a Chance. — The Other Tests Applied.
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