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Indian Unrest

CHAPTER IV
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I think that by killing _sahibs_ [Englishmen] we people can get justice.
I never got injustice myself nor did any one I know.

I now regret killing Mr.Jackson.I killed a good man causelessly.
Can anything be much more eloquent and convincing than the terrible pathos of this confession ?[6] The three papers named by Kanhere were Tilak's organs.

It was no personal experience or knowledge of his own that had driven Kanhere to his frenzied deed, but the slow persistent poison dropped into his ear by the Tilak Press.

Though it was Kanhere's hand that struck down "a good man causelessly," was not Tilak rather than Kanhere the real author of the murder?
It was merely the story of the Poona murders of 1897 over again.
Other incidents besides the Nasik tragedy have occurred since Tilak's conviction to show how dangerous was the spirit which his doctrines had aroused.

One of the, gravest, symptomatically, was the happily unsuccessful attempt to throw a bomb at the Viceroy and Lady Minto whilst they were driving through the streets of Ahmedabad during their visit to the Bombay Presidency last November.


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