Militant Nationalism in Colonial Bihar (1905-1947)

Email

Whatsapp

Facebook

Pinterest

Twitter

Copy link

There is more need in India today of living for motherland, than of dying for her. But he alone can truly and nobly live for her who is prepared at a moment's notice to lose his life and all for her".

T-Modern Review, September 1908.

"Here are we five young men, with but limited means and we are called on to do nothing less than to overthrow an established Government"

-Jacobo Ruffine to the fellow conspirators at Genoa.

"Revolution is certainly not unthinking, brutal campaign of murder and incendiarism; it is not a few bombs thrown here and a few shots fired there; neither it is a movement meant to destroy all remnants of civilization and blow to pieces time-honoured principle of Justice and Equity. Revolution is not a philosophy of despair or a creed of desperadoes. Revolution may be anti-God but is certainly not anti-man...

"We have been taken to task for our Terroristic policy. Our answer is that terrorism is never the object of revolutionaries, nor do they believe that terrorism alone can bring independence. No doubt the revolutionaries think, and rightly, that it is only by resorting to terrorism alone that they can find a most effective means of retaliation. The British Government exists, because the Britishers have been successful in terrorizing the whole of India. How are we to meet the official terrorism? Only counter-terrorism on the part of the revolutionaries can checkmate effectively this bureaucratic bullying.

- Manifesto of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army circulated at the Lahore session of the Indian National Congress in December 1929.

It is expected that this book will prove useful for the persons interested in the subject.