n how the revolution
develops itself ... The Mother must be free, must
be one and united, must make her will supreme. Then it
may be that She gives out this Her will either wearing a kingly
crown on Her head or a Republican mantle round Her sacred
form.

But after being exhorted in impassioned accents either to sacrifice
themselves in the great national struggle now at hand, or at the very
least to stand back and keep the ring, they are warned as to the
consequences of disregarding these admonitions:--

Forget not, O Princes! that a strict account will be asked
of your doings and non-doings, and a people newly-born
will not fail to pay you in the coin you paid. Every one
who shall have actively betrayed the trust of the people,
disowned his fathers, and debased his blood by arraying
himself against the Mother--he shall be crushed to dust
and ashes.... Do you doubt our grim earnestness!
If so hear the name of Dhingra and be dumb. In the name
of that martyr, O Indian Princes, we ask you to think
solemnly and deeply upon these words. Choose as you will
and you will reap what you sow. Choose whether you shall
be the first of the nation's fathers or the last of the nation's
tyrants.

In some less rabid quarters an attempt has been made to decry the views
of the native rulers as emanating from petty Oriental despots, terrified
by the onward march of the new Indian democracy. If so it is strange
that whilst these "despots" make no secret of their attitude towards
disaffection, they are equally outspoken on the necessity of a liberal
and progressive policy. The Nizam himself states emphatically that he is
"a great believer in conciliation and repression going hand in hand to
cope with the present condition of India. While sedition should be
localized and rooted out sternly, and even mercilessly, deep sympathy
and unreserved reliance should manifest themselves in all dealings with
loyal subjects without distinction of creed, caste, and colour."
Unfortunately it requires at the present day more courage for an Indian
to hold such language as that than to coquet, as many politicians do,
with violence and crime. Indians in high position are peculiarly
sensitive to printed attacks, perhaps because behind such attacks there
often lurk forms of social pressure, rendered possible by their caste
system, with which we, happily for ourselves, are totally unfamiliar.
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