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cured of the disorders caused by the excess of wind and longwindedness. They should devote the period of parhez to the education of the masses and the elimination of corruption and bribery from their midst. Let those who have leisure enough to spend in the inside of public jails exile themselves, voluntarily, to a neighbouring village, and apply their energies to educate the villagers in the elements of knowledge. I have no doubt that in the course of a few years they would raise the percentage of literacy to a very high figure, though it may not be easy to induce the elderly people to undergo pupilage in old age. If corruption and bribery cease, the lot of the poorer people is automatically rendered more agreeable and enjoyable. But the greatest gain will be in the relations of the two rival communities that are now engaged in a bitter contest with each other. At first the Moslems will sneer at the Hindus and jeer at them; but the tables will be turned in a few months, as the reason for the treatment of the Muslim community as a favoured one shall have disappeared; and within a year Muhammadans will be begging and praying the Hindus to return to politics. In the second year the Muslim restlessness will become more striking, and they will be willing to do anything to join hands with the Hindus. In the third year they both should combine to eradicate bribery and corruption and other kinds of evil practices from the country. The fourth year should see education and prosperity making long strides all over the land; and the fifth will be the culminating year when it will be difficult for any one to resist the combined power of the two communities, now united on the basis of an understanding of their true needs as Indians, determined to live together in the united mother-land.
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Such is the programme of work that will bring emancipation to India from political slavery. British co-operation should not be rejected in carrying this out, and we must noncooperate with our own men who are prone to deliver long
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