Category: History - Other
Considering that in August, 1916, when this book was published, I was only a stranger in this country, known only to a few individuals, with almost no credentials of any kind to command the attention of the reading public, it is extremely gratifying that the first edition shou...
Considering that in August, 1916, when this book was published, I was only a stranger in this country, known only to a few individuals, with almost no credentials of any kind to...
4. CHAPTER IIndian History rolls back to thousands of years before the Christian Era. Much of it is still enveloped in mystery. What little is known has been discovered and put in shape wit...
5. CHAPTER IIAurangzeb, the 6th Mogul Emperor of India, died in 1707 A. D. Within fifty years of his death, the Mogul sovereignty in India was reduced to its last gasp. The seeds sown by his...
6. PART I--FROM 1857 TO 1885The mutiny was quelled. The ringleaders among the mutineers were killed, hanged or shot, and with them a lot of those who were innocent. Many of the rank and file were pardoned,...
7. PART II. THE BIRTH OF THE INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS_Indian National Congress an English Product._ It is an undisputed historical fact, that the idea of the Indian National Congress was a product of Lord Dufferin’s brain; that he...
8. PART III. THE BIRTH OF THE NEW NATIONALIST MOVEMENTThe National Movement in India continued on its placid and humdrum course until Lord Curzon’s ridicule of the movement convinced the people that the political methods of the Con...
9. CHAPTER IV_Partition of Bengal._ It was on the 16th of October, 1905, that the old Province of Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon. On that day “immense numbers of people in the two div...
10. CHAPTER VWe will now see how many types of Nationalists there are in India. From what follows in the chapter, the reader should not conclude that the Indian Nationalists are disunited. S...
11. CHAPTER VI_Inspiration through European Nationalism._ There can be no doubt that Indian nationalism is receiving a great deal of support from the world-forces operating outside of India....
12. CHAPTER VIIFor a time the Mohammedan minority was the hope of the British Government in India. As far back as 1888, Lord Dufferin[92] and Sir Auckland Colvin had successfully appealed to t...
13. CHAPTER VIIIIt is both difficult and risky to predict, especially concerning a country situated as India is to-day. It is always the unexpected that happens in human affairs. This is partic...