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Indian Unrest

CHAPTER VII
18/36

These articles form a manual of directions for "the army of young men which is the _Nrisinha_ and the _Varaha_ and the _Kalki_ incarnation of God, saving the good and destroying the wicked"-- the _Kalki_ incarnation being that in which Vishnu is to come and deliver India from the foreigner.

To shake off slavery the first essential is that the educated classes shall learn to hate slavery.

Then the lower classes will soon follow their lead.

"It is easy to incite the lower classes to any particular work.

But the incitement of the educated depends on a firm belief." Therefore the "poisonous" effects of slavery must be constantly brought home, and "we must always be trying to destroy the present unnatural liking for a state of servitude." The aspiration for freedom must be converted into a firm resolve, and to divert the Bengalee "from the unfailing attraction of a livelihood" to the cause of freedom "his mind must be excited and maddened by such an ideal as will present to him a picture of everlasting salvation." Public opinion must be built up by the newspapers, "which must be filled with the discussion of the necessity of independence and revolution," by soul-stirring musical and theatrical performances, glorifying the lives of Indian heroes and their great deeds in the cause of freedom, and by patriotic songs.


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