Sri Aurobindo
Karmayogin
Political Writings and Speeches — 1909-1910 — No.27
Karmayogin: A Weekly Review
Saturday 8th January 1910 — No.27
Facts and Opinions
The Menace of Deportation
Once more rumours of deportation are rife, proceeding this time from those pillars of authority, the police.
It seems that these gentlemen have bruited it abroad that twenty-four men prominent and unprominent are within the next six or seven days to be deported from Bengal, and so successfully has the noise of the coming coup d'etat been circulated that the rumour of it comes to us from a distant corner of Behar.
It appears that the name of Sj. Aurobindo Ghose crowns the police list of those who are to be spirited away to the bureaucratic Bastilles.
The offence for which this inclusion is made, is, apparently, that he criticises the Government, by which we presume it is meant that he publicly opposes the Reforms.
It is difficult to judge how much value is to be attached to the rumour, but we presume that at least a proposal has been made.
If we are not mistaken, this will make the third time that the deportation of the Nationalist leader has been proposed by the persistence of the police.
The third time is supposed to be lucky, and let us hope it will be the last.
The Government ought to make up its mind one way or the other, and the country should know, whether they will or will not tolerate opposition within the law; and this will decide it.
Meanwhile, why does the thunderbolt linger?
Or is there again a hitch in London?