Sri Aurobindo
Karmayogin
Political Writings and Speeches — 1909-1910 — No.31
Karmayogin: A Weekly Review
Saturday 5th February 1910 — No.31
Facts and Opinions
Its Extent
This party has two sides, the propaganda carried on in foreign countries, and the Terrorist activity always recrudescent in our midst.
The latter is the most1 formidable in the present, the former the most2 dangerous in the future.
The foreign propaganda was first located in London and confined to the single paper, the Indian Sociologist, first an organ of Shyamji Krishnavarma's Home Rule Society and opposed to all methods of violence.
The conversion of Krishnavarma to the Terrorism he once fiercely condemned, has been a very important factor in the growth of the new party.
The propaganda has been driven from London only to spring at once into
a3 ubiquitous activity abroad.
From Paris Krishnavarma publishes the Indian Sociologist; from Berlin a new organ, significantly self-styled the Talwar, issues; in Geneva a paper naming itself the Bande Mataram busies itself with decrying the policy of the defunct Bande Mataram and denouncing its originator and former Editor; a paper called the Free Hindustan maintains itself in America.
Wealthy men and women stand behind these organs, the Kathiawar Krishnavarma, the Parsi lady Mrs. Kama and possibly others who do not advertise their names.
Young men of all nationalities in India seem to have joined these organisations and occasional pamphlets find their way into India in spite of the vigilance of the Post Office by means familiar to European revolutionism.
In India any violent propaganda is impossible; violent action takes its place and the swift succession of attempted or successful outrages in Gujerat, Maharashtra, Punjab and Bengal shows4 that if the movement is not organised, as in these foreign countries, it is equally widespread.
The very existence of such a conspiracy must paralyse all other forms and methods of national aspiration by driving the Government and the Anglo-Indian community into the suppression of everything that goes beyond contented acceptance of that which exists.
The revolutionists know this well and they have played their game with great skill and success.