Sri Aurobindo

Bande Mataram

Political Writings and Speeches. 1890–1908

Part Six. Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo with Speeches Delivered during the Same Period 6 February – 3 May 1908

Speech at Panti’s Math¹

Aurobindo Ghose proposed the second resolution, which was to express sympathy for Chidambaram Pillai and other leaders of the Tinnevelly riot at Madras and thanking them for the bravery they have shown in defending the cause of Swadeshi. He hinted at the oppression of the European merchants backed by the bureaucracy in putting down the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, which they could not do by any lawful means. He ended by saying that there is no longer time for speaking or writing for the Motherland, but now is the time when the brain is to be prepared for devising plans, the body for working hard and the hand for fighting out the country’s cause.

This work was not included in SABCL, vol.1 and it was not compared with other editions.

¹ Delivered at Panti’s Math, Calcutta, on 3 April 1908. Noted down by a police agent and submitted as evidence in the Alipore Bomb Case (1908 – 09).

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