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THE INDIAN PROBLEM
(c) Induce the police and the bar to remain straight. (d) Insist on the purification of the atmosphere of Law courts.
(e) Induce the judiciary to yield to no influence in the administration of unflinching justice. (f) Encourage honest private arbitration.
(7) National Economy
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(a) Adopt Swadeshi, but keep it free from politics. (b) Start all necessary industries in the country to be independent of the foreign manufacturer.
(c) Purchase from the British manufacturer, in preference to others, what you have to purchase abroad, at least normally.
(d) Do not fail to co-operate fully with Indian ministers in respect of transferred subjects.
PRESENT DAY PROBLEMS
The above was composed in 1921 when the non-cooperation movement was at its height. Much water has flown under the bridge since then, and the situation has become more pitiable than ever. There has been much talk of a constitution; conferences and confabulations have taken place in India and England several times. But the lot of the Indian has become steadily worse, and the Hindu-Muslim problem is one of the most distressing ones of our times.
The remedy suggested by the situation is this: let the Hindus observe total abstinence from politics for a period of five years. When a man is taken ill the doctors prescribe some medicine for him, and he is asked to observe complete parhez from certain things; and he is cured speedily. Parhez is abstention from all those things-meats and drinks and the like-that are harmful to health.
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The political situation to-day also requires nothing else so much as parhez. Let the Hindus observe complete parhez from politics and political chatter till such time as they are
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