Indian Home Rules Gandhiji

Author(s): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhiji
Publisher: Yann Forget

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HIND SWARAJ OR INDIAN HOME RULE
is not by way of punishment to be imposed by another on the offender, but one to be imposed on himself by himself. And is Miss Rathbone sure that she can, by using what she supposes to be Christ's method, save the child? She is wrong in thinking that Gandhiji has not posed the question. He has posed it and answered it emphatically, as it was posed and answered in action by those immortal Muslim martyrs 1300 years ago who suffered women and children to die of hunger and thirst rather than bow to the tyrant and deny their own conscience. For, in bowing to the tyrant and denying your own conscience, you encourage the tyrant to perpetrate further horrors.
But even Miss Irene Rathbone calls Hind Swaraj "an enormously powerful book”, and says that by virtue of it she has found myself forced by its tremendous honesty to search my own honesty. I would implore people to read it."
The Editors of the Aryan Path have done a distinct service to the cause of peace and nonviolence by issuing their Hind Swaraj Special Number.