RE321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Allan Octavian Hume, Hind Swaraj Or Indian Home Rule, Swaraj
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Re321 lesson 4: gandhi"s mid-life and the emergence of his political thought, (1): swaraj. 1860-1909: gandhi wasn"t the first indian to use the term swaraj = political independence. Indian nationalists campaigned for india"s political independence from great britain = swaraj was their goal. Indian national congress or congress founded in 1885 by british civil servant in india named. Savarkar) advocated far more radial methods of protest, including terrorist acts and assassinations. Smuts (1870-1950: seeing indians treated as second-class citizens, gandhi came to believe that indians in. India ought to have fair say and control over their own land, where indians should be first- class citizens: gandhi was not claiming disloyalty to the british crown he believed that india should remain a. In other words: because some indians still value britain"s modern civilizations and refuse to return to traditional civilization, they are legitimating and justifying britain"s continued presence. The english have not taken india; we have given it to them.
