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THE AWAKENING OF INDIA' (A happy solution)
[India seems to be the only field where any practical solution can be worked out. The two countries which may be taken respectively the representatives of the West and the East, America and Japan are peculiarly unfit to solve the problem for the simple reason that they are actively contributing towards the complexity of the situation by their mutual jealousy and clash of interests.]
The Romans were conquered by the Teutonic Barbarians. Similarly modern Europe would be an easy prey to the Asiatics. Negroes will be the last inheritors of the Earth. Again there was the talk of the Yellow Peril' invented by the interested German statesmen of the last generation. The white man's burden and the But "yellow peril' were the fixed ideas of Europe two decades ago. the great war has changed all things. The great gifted European statesmen have enunciated in unmistakable terms the so-called principle of self-determination. They can no more retrace their steps than the earth could retrace its course in its orbit. A new idea and a new hope is given to the world at large. As a corollary of the This cry above principle there is theory of Asia for the Asiatics. may become more than mere empty ideal under the Hegemony of Japan. So long as racial feeling remain a chronic disease of European politics there could be no permanent peace for the world. Unless things improve within a few decades there may be a great war of the races, white against the coloured. This war may be worse than the one from which the world has just now escaped, because the future one would have in addition to all implements of destruction the racial animosity to boot. Diplomats may put off such a world calamity for a while. Still that is no permanent solution of the problem. There could be no permanent peace for the world. India seems to be the only field where any practical solution can be worked out. The two countries which may be taken respectively the representatives of the West and the East, America and Japan are peculiary unfit to solve the problem for the simple reason that they are actively contributing towards the complexity of the situation by their mutual jealousy and clash of interests. Hence it is given to England and India to discover a new mode of political adjustment and
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| SR No. | 524571 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 1992 07 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Parmeshwar Solanki |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 1992 |
| Total Pages | 154 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 8 MB |