Or do you want an expansion of the Legislative Councils?
Do you want that a few Indians shall sit as your representatives in the House of Commons?
Do you want a large number of Indians in the Civil Service?
Let us see whether 50, 100, 200, or 300 civilians will make the Government our own....

The whole Civil Service might be Indian, but the Civil servants have to carry out orders--they cannot direct, they cannot dictate the policy.
One swallow does not make the summer.

One civilian, 100 or 1,000 civilians in the service of the British Government will not make that Government Indian.

There are traditions, there are laws, there are policies to which every civilian, be he black or brown or white, must submit, and as long as these traditions have not been altered, as long as these principles have not been amended, as long as that policy has not been radically changed, the supplanting of European by Indian agency will not make for self-government in this country.
Nor is it from the British Government that Mr.Pal looks for, or would accept, _Swaraj_:-- If the Government were to come and tell me to-day "Take _Swaraj" I would say thank you for the gift, but I will not have that which I cannot acquire by my own hand....
Our programme is that we shall so work in the country, so combine the resources of the people, so organize the forces of the nation, so develop the instincts of freedom in the community, that by this means we shall--_shall_ in the imperative--compel the submission to our will of any power that may set itself against us.
Equally definite is Mr.Pal as to the methods by which _Swaraj_ is to be made "imperative." They consist of _Swadeshi_ in the economic domain, i.e., the encouragement of native industries reinforced by the boycott of imported goods which will kill British commerce and, in the political domain, passive resistance reinforced by the boycott of Government service.
They say:--Can you boycott all the Government offices?
Whoever said that we would?
Whoever said that there would not be found a single Indian to serve the Government or the European community here?
But what we can do is this.
We can make the Government impossible without entirely making it impossible for them to find people to serve them.
The administration may be made impossible in a variety of ways.

It is not actually that every deputy magistrate should say: I won't serve in it.