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life and energy to the weaker party. You will thus realise from what stand-point we regard the career of His Highness as of utmost importance in our new activity. It will require all the resources of the wronged and suppressed to establish their claims to be every way the peers of our happily advanced but unfortunately jealous selfish and antagonistic brethren. His Highness has been their bulwark during the last ten years or so, and they are proud to have him as their ruler and leader. As an administrator or ruler, as the natural leader of his people, as the friend of the oppressed, as the inspirer of hope and strength into the heart of the workers in the cause of the backward people and as the head of a community that has for ages decayed under the sway of the foreign, arrogant priesthood, he has always made it a point to give encouragement to the deserving movements and legitimate desires of the depressed and the degenerate.
Our ideal. To secure a few paltry offices is not our aim and we do not count His Highness' determination to reserve a few of them for our people as of very considerable value except as the recognition of a principle. Our aim is wider in scope and more farreaching in consequences. As far as we can see, this aim was clearly realised by only one among our historical personages. As I said before, it was Akbar who tried to work out the ancient ideal of the king being the head--political as well as social- of his people. We read in Purnas of Janak being the warrior and the saint of his tribe. Akabar tried, though not with permanent success, to play the same part. He was the anticipator of many a reform that we are now desiring to introduce into our society. He tried to unite his Mostem and Hindu subjects under one empire, under one religion, under one interdining and intermarrying society. His imperial unity has been imitated even with greater thoroughness by the English. But that is only an external unity, holding the people as a pack of cards. Unloosen
| SR No. | 542510 |
| Book Title | Jain Gazette 1905 10 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Jain Student Institute Kolhapur |
| Publisher | Jain Student Institute Kolhapur |
| Publication Year | 1905 |
| Total Pages | 28 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Jain Gazette, & India |
| File Size | 5 MB |