... the Madras Presidency. It was the sole representative of public opinion in the Presidency during its early days. Its reputation rose meteorically. As early as 1882 - that is, within four years of its birth - it became a reliable barometer for public opinion in the Presidency. Whenever Viceroy Ripon wanted to ascertain public opinion on any important measure, he would say: 'Take The Hindu... Hindu and see what it says'. First founded as a weekly, The Hindu sought to reflect public opinion on to its alien rulers. Soon the paper discovered that it had a more vital role to play than merely reflecting public opinion. The paper took the initiative in shaping public opinion in the direction of an ultimate demand for national liberation. The paper became a tri-weekly in 1883 and a daily... Indian Review, shedding light on the growth of public opinion of the period also deserve a brief note here, His first regular publication was the Indian Politics which appeared in 1898. Adorned with an introduction by W. C. Bonnerjee, one of the founders and the first President of the Indian National Congress, this work aimed at educating public opinion in the country and at rallying 'British democracy ...
... Of all the present rulers of India Sir Edward Baker is the only one who really puts any value on public opinion. He has committed indiscretions of a startling character, he has loyally carried out a policy with which he can have no heartfelt sympathy, but his anxiety to conciliate public opinion even under these adverse circumstances betrays the uneasiness of a man who knows the force of that power... not a popular majority. Sir Edward answers that it was never intended to be a popular majority. It was meant only to represent the "honest" public opinion which is capable in most things of seeing eye to eye with the Government; all the rest of public opinion is not honest and therefore unfit for representation. A most delightful specimen of bureaucratic logic! The plain question rising above all sophisms... question. All we say is that they have so guarded themselves and, as a result, these Councils may be the kind of advisory body the Government want, they are not the popular assemblies, mirrors of public opinion and instruments of rapid political development, which the people want. Sir Edward Baker says that no Government can be expected to run the risk of putting itself into a permanent minority,—such ...
... itself required specific psychological remedies: Men's minds are becoming focused on an object at once simple and dangerous — the cold war. All proposals and all actions are interpreted by public opinion as a contribution to the cold war. The cold war, whose essential objective is to make the opponent give way, is the first phase of real war. This prospect creates among leaders that rigidity of... of the French initiative.' Count Carlo Sforza, the Italian Foreign Minister, welcomed it warmly on behalf of his, own Government. The three Benelux Governments wanted more technical details, but public opinion impelled them towards rapid acceptance. And in London the three Powers were at last able to agree about Germany. Charles Ronsac cabled: Everything is changed. Instead of a negative, cold-war... similar risk, though for different reasons, in dealing with the Germans, and especially with their industrialists and diplomats. "The Shuman proposal,' I added, 'has had a profound effect on public opinion. People are no longer prepared to see their hopes disappointed. We must turn as soon as possible from words to deeds. The negotiations must produce a general Treaty setting up the High Authority: ...
... Congress, whether it should be merely to focus public opinion and proceed no farther or to gather up the life of the nation and deploy its strength in a struggle for national self-assertion. When this question is decided the next which arises is that of the aim towards which the Congress is to work. If its function is merely to focus public opinion, its aim can only be to submit grievances to the... the Congress as their personal property or an intolerance which is inconsistent with the essential conditions of a self-governing body; the second, either a dependence on bureaucratic in place of public opinion which is also incompatible with the spirit of self-government or an implied right of control by bureaucratic influence which no patriot will admit. We assert the right of the Congress to determine ...
... right observances, guided by Dharma, was left near my hermitage on account of public censure. (16) 0 Rāma, you who are devoted to the great vows of austerity, but who are under the pressure of public opinion, Sītā will give to you proof and you should give your permission to do so. (17) These twin sons of Sītā are indeed your sons, difficult to conquer (by foes); this is the truth, I tell you. (18)... also in the sixth element of the mind, she was pure. (22) This sinless, pure of conduct Sītā, looking upon her husband as the only god, shall give assurance to you, who are under the pressure of public opinion. (23) Therefore, 0 son of the greatest of men, I have seen through divine vision that she is perfectly pure and that she was forsaken by you on account of public censure that considered her to... (the daughter of Videha) had already assured (us of her pure conduct) in front of the gods and had Page 278 taken oath and then was she allowed to enter the inner apartments. (3) "Public opinion has a supervening power; it is for this reason that Maithilī (Sītā) was forsaken. "I forsook this Sītā, 0 Brahmana, due to pressure of censure, although knowing that she was sinless, so please ...
... directly or indirectly either executive or legislature, no power over the purse. The only force at their command was the vague strength of public opinion. The object of the Indian leaders, like that of the Roman plebeians, was to give a definite form to that public opinion,—focus it, as it is commonly expressed,—and, secondly, to make that definitely formulated opinion effective. In each case a new body... threat or the practice of boycott or secession. If the function of the Congress is merely to focus public opinion, it need do nothing but pass resolutions and a few slight changes of procedure will be sufficient. But if its function is to pass effective resolutions, if it is not only to focus public opinion but to collect and centralize national strength it will have to use the weapon of secession to organize ...
... denied to them today, the last state of India will be deplorably and ominously worse than the first." Of course India is much behind the times in imagining that "encouragement" to the leaders of public opinion will meet the situation. The least that India now demands is the admission of the people of the country to the management of its own affairs. But it is at once surprising and gratifying to find... "on the line and in the direction" of the great improvement called for; it would be its worst enemy. Merely to temper absolute bureaucratic power by providing means for consulting the "leaders of public opinion" is a reform which would be the worst enemy of Indian self-government. We recommend this dictum of Mr. Morley, the philosopher, to Mr. Gokhale and other Moderates. ...
... overthrown by the unforeseen outburst of activities and dangers it had not anticipated. It is in order to avoid these dangers that Mr. Morley wishes to employ various means of keeping in touch with public opinion and its manifestations. He talks in his speech of the necessity of the rulers putting themselves in the skins of the ruled, in other words, of thoroughly understanding their thoughts, feelings... will come to know the ideas, views and feelings of the people; through the two former bodies they will try to present unpopular measures in such a way as to coax, cajole, delude or intimidate public opinion into a quiet acceptance. If they cannot do this, then through the decentralised local officers they can keep in touch with the popular temper, learn its manifestations and activities and successfully ...
... publication is called for in the interests of the public good. We, therefore, make no apology for publishing the following letter that has been addressed from the Bengalee Office, to the leaders of public opinion in the mofussil:— Confidential Bengalee Office. 70, Colootola Street, Calcutta. 29th August, 1906. My dear——, At a Conference held in the Rooms of the Landholders' Association on... have its leaders, and the leaders must exercise the right of guiding and shaping the Page 146 opinions and activities of the Democracy. But to guide, to train, to shape and to control public opinion and public activities is one thing but to ignore or suppress the views and sentiments of the public is another. It is the autocrat alone who does or attempts to do so. And this pernicious autocratic ...
... I can always do so, but for one reason or another I do not give them and thus I put people into difficulty. I don't know whether they actually believe it. I have never cared for popularity or public opinion, so this view had no importance for Page 208 me. But from the way you spoke yesterday morning, I wonder whether the Divine also shares this view. No, the Divine knows and cannot... against the language policy of the Government. He wants your advice. What shall I tell him? Why should he listen to threats? He must act according to the inner command and not according to public opinion. Shall I give him the idea of Sanskrit as an all-India language? Page 312 Yes. Blessings. 29 December 1967 Mother, A young man from Ludhiana—Y—has received a ...
... first of its kind, spreading wide among my folk, like a drop of oil on waves of water, even as a mighty elephant hates the post to which he is tied." I know that she is innocent, and yet public opinion, I hold, prevails: Earth's shadow cast across the spotless Moon is held by vulgar minds to be a stain on her. — Canto XIV. 37-38, 40 Rāma went though a really difficult ordeal... brothers. Here Rāma was asked by Vālmīki himself to accept Sītā, after introducing his sons to him. But Rāma had the following to say in reply, and this is most unfortunate, for again, here, the public opinion holds sway in his mind. Rāma says: Sire, this your daughter (Sītā) has been purified in fire in our very presence, but because of the wickedness of the Rāksasa, the subjects here, did ...
... discarding Western education". For instance, the Mohammedan Education Conference, helped to provide a common platform for the Muslims of various provinces to come together, "to formulate a centre of public opinion for the entire Mohammedan 'nation' and then to spread those ideas among the Page 29 community" and to create communal consciousness and solidarity. The Aligarh School... core of its leadership, the League aspired to become the political mouthpiece of Indian Muslims. Its platform included safeguarding of Muslim interests, articulating their demands, building up public opinion in favour of a separate electorate, and countering Hindu propaganda and agitation against the partition of Bengal. In 1906, another official of the Anglo-Oriental College, Mohsin-ul-Malik ...
... majority, and, if they cannot do so, the decision rests with the All-India Congress Committee. This arrangement is admirably conceived for swelling the Congress funds on the one hand and for defeating public opinion on the other. The Reception Committee is not an elected or representative body but is constituted on a money basis, as anyone who can pay twenty-five rupees or get another to pay it for him can... can have his name enrolled as a member. Whichever side has the longer purse can secure the election of the President of its choice. Such an election is no more likely to represent public opinion than Mr. Morley's Council of Notables is likely to represent it. Like the Council of Notables it will represent the opinion of the monied aristocracy, the men of position and purse, the men "with a stake in the ...
... the revered Motherland full time. He took leave and boarded the train for Calcutta on 2 March 1906. Barin followed him shortly afterwards. The Ghose brothers knew that at this crucial moment public opinion had to be informed, encouraged and guided. In March, at the suggestion of Barin, Aurobindo agreed to start a paper in Bengali, Yugantar (The Changing Age), ‘which was to preach open revolt and... who in 1906 persuaded this group in Bengal to take public position as a party, proclaim Tilak as their leader and enter into a contest with the Moderate leaders for control of the Congress and of public opinion and action in the country.’ 45 The 1906 Calcutta general conference of the Indian National Congress (I.N.C.) and the district conference in Midnapore a year later had led to serious clashes ...
... acquiesced in by China two years later, both India and China agreeing to respect the sovereignty of Tibet. Curzon also tried to effect improvement in every branch of the administration, regardless of public opinion or official opposition. He reduced the salt tax twice and made the lower incomes free of tax, and generally brought a measure of economy and efficiency into financial administration. He settled... anti-partition agitation powerfully. We will get many workers for the movement." 6 The partition was but one move in a long war, and the anti-partition movement was to be a means of mobilising public opinion on the more fundamental issue of Swaraj or complete national independence unshackled by notion of gradualism or colonial self-government. Sri Aurobindo attended, as we saw earlier, both the Bombay ...
... parliamentarian liberalism or the labour movement because Europe has got them. But there it is very real while here it is merely an idea and a name. Parliamentarianism is based upon educating public opinion and there the agitation has a direct bearing on their government and they have got to do it to take the masses with them at the polls. In India while we take up this form of agitation, of making... ideals such as Democracy, Monarchy, Socialism, Communism etc, then all the problems of humanity will be solved. They follow a mental ideal which they think to be the only truth and they create public opinion and try to catch, or get hold of, the machinery of the State. . Among all the conflicting ideals none has yet proved successful. It was thought that democracy Page 44 ...
... educated and even a learned man. He himself does not conceal his opinion that he is almost if not quite the only well-educated man in India and is perpetually asking the acknowledged exponents of public opinion on the Nationalist side what educational qualifications they possess which would justify them in advising or instructing their countrymen in politics. At one time it is the conductors of Bande ...
... decision to transfer Sir Pherozshah's movable property to Surat at a safe distance from Bengal where the Loyalist position is as yet unbreached and there is no time for the Nationalists to instruct public opinion before the holding of the session. The intrigue is now complete, to the huge delight of the Englishman , and officialdom is full of hope that Sir Pherozshah Page 743 will this year ...
... The Brahmin legislated, but legislation was then a religious function which implied no political power or position, and the people at large exercised only an indirect control by the pressure of a public opinion which no ruler could afford to neglect. Afterwards when Chandragupta and Asoka had created the tradition of a powerful absolutism Page 779 with a strong bureaucratic organisation to ...
... The young generation assisted the movement; the whole of Bengal became alive and pricked up its ears. The leaders had no faith in boycott, yet they could not hold their own against the current of public opinion. They joined the boycott movement. Government officers were terrified. They began their repressive policy in order to break the bones of agitation. Students were the first to bear the brunt ...
... 04-September-1906 There seems to be a recrudescence of the old and decadent praying mood once again in certain quarters, and attempts, we understand, are being made to induce the leaders of public opinion in the mofussil to join the Calcutta clique for sending a fresh representation to the Secretary of State for India, for the revocation or modification of the Partition of Bengal. The recent reply ...
... which all can take their stand. We do not disguise from ourselves the fact that on the last two of these questions there are very serious differences of opinion between the two schools now dividing public opinion. In the matter of Boycott, the difference has been one of greater or less thoroughness in Page 224 practice and of the ultimate goal; but the necessity of Boycott has been recognised ...
... what it has done recently beyond promising reforms which never come and thriving on the support of the Indian public. Certainly this is not enough to entitle it to lecture one of the leaders of public opinion and revile him as a "ranter". We hope that Mr. Mudholkar will learn his lesson, cease to appeal to English rulers and English journals and address himself in future to his own countrymen. Let him ...
... discredit and gradual disuse, and time will accelerate its inevitable death by atrophy; for it can no longer even carry the little weight it had, since it has no longer the support of an undivided public opinion at its back. The alternative policy of self-development has received a partial recognition; it has been made an integral part of our political activities, but not in its entirety and purity. Self-help ...
... coarseness; so it lacks the charm of novelty. The Amrita Bazar Patrika has also become an object of Mr. N. N. Ghose's scientific investigations. He has discovered that this great organ of public opinion is returning to light,—in other words, that it was mad and is becoming sane. We do not precisely know why. The passages quoted from the Amrita Bazar Patrika merely repeat views which it has been ...
... expediency more than in principles. He seeks to lead the nation not by instructing it but by watching its moods and making use of them. Well and good; but even an opportunist leader must keep pace with public opinion, if he does not even go half a step in front of it; he must know which way it is going to leap before the leap is taken, and not follow halting some paces behind. The nation moves forward with ...
... in political life ought not to be introduced into India, but it is the worst hypocrisy for the citizens of a country where such things not only happen but are tolerated and sometimes approved by public opinion, Page 228 to turn up the whites of their eyes at Indian disorderliness and argue from it to the unfitness of the race for democratic politics. And it must be remembered that worse things ...
... 232 resolutions of the Congress are recognised as the opinion of the majority leaving the minority perfect freedom to bring in their own resolutions when they have converted the mass of public opinion to their views, the unity will be real and living. We were never in favour of shams. It is only righteousness that exalts a nation and righteousness means going straight; nothing can long endure ...
... co-operation from the Government, until they give us some effective control over the administration and some constitutional means by which we can bring the voice of the people and the weight of public opinion to bear upon the management Page 223 of the affairs of this country. We hold that in these circumstances we ought to put forward the interests of the country partly by a movement of ...
... must be compelled to assume the same character. The difficulties in the way are two: first, the absence of any well-understood rules of procedure in the Congress; secondly, the absence of a strong public opinion which would unanimously resent the misuse of his authority whatever party might be benefited. If the now unwritten procedure of the Congress is reduced to writing and provision made for the right ...
... nt. On the contrary he distinctly stated that if he had thought his measure to be anything of the kind he would have immediately withdrawn it. All that he promised was a scheme by which Indian public opinion could be more liberally consulted, and there were from the beginning distinct indications that the Government would put its own meaning on the phrase and draw a distinction between Indian opinion ...
... knowledge on new lines, the reawakening of interest, hope and enthusiasm in the country, the provision of the necessary funds to the mofussil schools, the forcing on the Council by the pressure of public opinion of a more rational and a more national system of teaching. But the first condition of success is the reawakening of the national movement all along the line, and this can only be done by the o ...
... 1906 persuaded this group in Bengal to take [a] public position as a party, proclaim Tilak as their leader and enter into a contest with the Moderate leaders for the control of the Congress and of public opinion and action in the country. The first great public clash between the two parties took place in the sessions of the Congress at Calcutta where Sri Aurobindo was present but still working behind the ...
... those who are themselves in that condition are capable of discerning whether someone else is or is not. And now, all human organizations are based on: visible fact (which is a falsehood), public opinion (which is another falsehood), and the moral sense, which is yet another falsehood! (Mother laughs) So.... (silence) Page 191 March 28, 1970 AM XI-134-135 ...
... then, only those who are themselves in that condition can discern whether another is in it or not. At present, all human organizations are based on: the visible fact (which is a falsehood), public opinion (another falsehood), and moral sense, which is a third falsehood! ( Mother laughs ) So... ( silence ) Ah! Have you read the latest answer to the Aphorisms ? Your experience of "God" ...
... from his kingdom. The difficult decision he had to take in this connection has raised much controversy about the responsibility of the King in the discharge of his public duties and the role that public opinion should play in the life of the King. Sri Rama has been worshipped in India as an ideal son, ideal husband, ideal friend, ideal brother, ideal father and an ideal king and the pattern of kingdom ...
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 20 MARCH 1940 PURANI: In Sweden public opinion seems to be in favour of Germany. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. PURANI: That is why no help was given to Finland. SRI AUROBINDO: Norway and Sweden have become pacific. Of course the Norwegians are not said to be particularly good fighters, though once the Norwegian Vikings ...
... with me. NIRODBARAN: How? You didn't mean unconditional support! SRI AUROBINDO: They ought to have done that at the beginning as Gandhi had said. They would have got much more and British public opinion also would have swung round. Even now if they accept the Viceroy's offer, it will come to the same thing. Otherwise they will either have to start civil disobedience or keep hanging. NIRODBARAN: ...
... the abolition of serfdom for the rest of her life and consoled her conscience by abusing the Russian nobles in her memoirs. "What had I not to suffer from the voice of an irrational and cruel public opinion when this question was considered in the legislative commission! The mob of nobles, whose number was much greater than I had ever supposed because I had judged them too much by the people who ...
... different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions." The stage was now set for the demand of a separate independent homeland for the Muslims of India. The Muslim public opinion following the Congress rule in the Muslim minority provinces felt that the rights and privileges of Muslims could not be protected under a parliamentary form of government. The Lahore ...
... From that year onwards the Congress met every year and passed resolutions, which were reprinted in newspapers and widely discussed. The main idea of these resolutions was to educate public opinion and to persuade the British to effect various measures of political reform. The British in their turn completely ignored these resolutions. As a matter of fact, the British had nothing but contempt ...
... themselves in that condition are capable of discerning whether someone else is or is not. Page 30 And now, all human organizations are based on: visible fact (which is a falsehood), public opinion (which is another falsehood), and the moral sense, which is yet another falsehood! (Mother laughs) So.... (silence) ٭ 2 May 1970 I have something for you... (Mother indicates ...
... " Somebody asked me to speak about international unity and gave me this book. So I took it as a theme. It was an association of International Fellowship in Madras. The writer advocated creating public opinion to influence the policy of the Government. I said there is no use trying to influence the policy of the government. Government policy is laid down and it is not going to be changed by anybody's ...
... the Earth. We are very few to understand what is really at stake. (...) More and more India is isolated and encircled. I should think, as Mother said, that one of the greatest falsehoods is "public opinion" — this is one of the greatest ghosts to be extirpated from Indiraji's consciousness. None of our enemies will be thankful for our assuaging them and mollifying them. Whatever we do "democratically" ...
... in December 1908. But then the Alipore Bomb Case trial was still going on. But now? What excuses could the government find? Rather it risked evoking an outcry by the English public. Fearing the public opinion, the Secretary of State, Lord Morley, put his foot down: "As for deportation, I will not listen to it." There remained a third option. Page 63 ...
... of nations. It may as powerfully hamper, as promote, the moral and material development of the people entrusted to its care. If the Government were supported by a more informed and intelligent public opinion and if the people, awakened to a sense of national life, were allowed and induced to take a livelier interest in their own concerns and if they worked in unison, they would conduce to mutual strength ...
... . No man of our time has had these gifts to the same extent as Romesh Dutt. The best things he ever did were, in our view, his letters to Lord Curzon and his Economic History. The former fixed public opinion in India irretrievably and nobody cared even to consider Lord Curzon's answer. "That settles it" was the general feeling every ordinary reader contracted for good after reading this brilliant and ...
... country every form of manliness and even rowdyism as long as it does not strike against the very soul of social and civic orders are not only tolerated, but frequently encouraged by the leaders of public opinion and the custodians of public morals; the denial of the commonest right of free citizenship,—the right of free participation in public meetings having for their object the reform of the Administration ...
... s will be moderate and without this restraint?" And the justice of this criticism who will deny? Mr. Gokhale's programme if accepted by Government, can have only one effect on the growth of public opinion and political life in India: it will prove the utter futility of any half-measures like these to secure real and substantial rights for the people. Such an education through failure, was needed ...
... out until some definite settlement is reached. We desire the issue to be fought out on a fair field, each party seeking the suffrages of the country and attempting to educate the great mass of public opinion to its views. Unfortunately, the Leaders of the older school are not willing to give this fair field. They prefer to adopt a Machiavellian strategy working in the darkness and by diplomatic strokes ...
... this coronation ceremony are indications which make us uneasy for our veteran leader. He should remember the last days of Keshab Chandra Sen and avoid a similar debacle. It is time that public opinion should forbid this habit of self-laudation in our leaders. The Mahratta leaders have a much keener sense of the decorum and seriousness which public life demands. Recently a movement was set on ...
... be avoided. If the Comilla nationalists wish the facts of the case to be known let them draw up a statement of their version with the evidence of the persons assaulted for the enlightenment of public opinion. The time ought to be now past, in Eastern Bengal at least, when appeal to the British courts could be either a remedy or a solace. Page 218 ...
... towards international unity and the growth of a new world and one world which is the future of humanity. We are of the opinion that if this programme is properly carried out with the approval of public opinion, it will assure our future evolution and progress without violence or strife. We would be able to take a fuller part in the total life of the Indian nation and be at the same time an instrument ...
... strong family likeness to the ways of the Provincial Congress autocrats all India over. The selection of a subservient President who will call white black at dictatorial bidding; the open scorn of public opinion; the disregard of justice, of fair play, of constitutional practice and procedure, of equality of all before recognised law and rule, and of every other principle essential to a self-governing ...
... matter altogether. This secrecy is never observed in practice; on the contrary, in the absence of free and healthy publicity, partial and altogether misleading reports are circulated which delude public opinion. If secrecy is to be observed, it must be done wholly and completely, by the mouth as well as by the pen. Even so, we should not have cared to break the pseudo-secrecy of these sittings if they ...
... feeling not infrequently breaks through the false Loyalist reasoning. Moreover by associating themselves with the Moderates on the same platform the Loyalists are enabled to exercise an influence on public opinion which would otherwise not be accorded to them. The gospel according to Sir Pherozshah Mehta would not have such power for harm if it were not allowed to represent itself as one and the same with ...
... has no intention of withdrawing from a single essential position that has once been occupied. Page 479 Although we can make no claims to leadership, we have, as a responsible organ of public opinion, the duty of laying our views before the people and we have not failed to do so to the best of our ability. The policy we advocate now is the policy we have always advocated, the policy of the ...
... of this dead scarecrow; it will wage war on Swadeshism on the plea that it leads to disorder; but that is only because, like all bureaucracies, it is sublimely indifferent to reason and fact and public opinion. It has served its turn by the fiction which it foisted through the mouth of Honest John on a loudly applauding though somewhat befogged House of Commons and it does not care even if the fiction ...
... rule. We would oppose it even if the creed were a declaration of the Nationalist faith. Such a limitation deprives the Congress of its free and representative character, it hampers aspiration and public opinion, it puts a premium on political hypocrisy. Even if we allow the argument of the Bengal Moderates, our fundamental objection to Article II is not removed. It is an exclusory clause, it limits the ...
... declaration of acceptance of the Boycott as a condition of entry into a United Congress. Just as the Moderates from Bombay accepted the Boycott resolution at Calcutta in deference to the weight of public opinion, so we accepted the Colonial self-government resolution as the opinion of the majority and are no more bound to subscribe to it personally than Sir Pherozshah Mehta is bound to subscribe to the ...
... disaffection not necessarily to the sovereign, but to the form and system of Government then obtaining, with a cry for absolute transformation. This was what happened in India in 1905. Trampling on public opinion without silencing its expression is mere madness; it leads to the genesis of great revolutionary movements, injures the Government, endangers public peace and order, and helps nobody. This method ...
... out of the reading of this judgment with a bewildered brain and only one clearly grasped idea, viz., that whether what we write is seditious or not, depends not on the law, but on the state of "public opinion" in England and Anglo-India, and on the intellectual vagaries of a Magistrate who cannot even misinterpret the law consistently. And after all that is "all we know or need to know" on the subject ...
... expressed by election or otherwise, of what might be called a semi-passive democracy as its first figure. For that is what the modern democracy at present is in fact; the sole democratic elements are public opinion, periodical elections and the power of the people to refuse re-election to those who have displeased it. The government is really in the hands of the bourgeoisie, the professional and business ...
... but most often not even that. What, for instance, is the objection to the use of "its" and "it" for a river? There seems to be an objection to any metaphors or figures such as "the scales of public opinion" or "a river rejecting someone from its borders". This seems to me astonishing; at any rate the figures are there in the original and one cannot suppress them in a translation or alter arbitrarily ...
... there are scattered instances of sati - often suspected to have been engineered by the husband's family to get for themselves whatever financial rights the wife might inherit. Our legislators and public opinion in general are up in arms against the aura some parties are trying to wrap the sati practice in. I am afraid I have been drawn into quite a digression apropos of Prince Kumar's reference ...
... those who attempted to spread it would become the laughing-stock of all. But people did not listen to this advice; they said they would try and see if the movement would succeed. The current of public opinion grew so strong that the leaders ultimately had to give their consent to the new movement. They accepted Swadeshi but wanted to have recourse to boycott only for six months to see if the Partition ...
... Provincial and District conferences and the celebration of the 16th October discontinued, the better for our national honesty and sincerity. If the West Bengal leaders, who under the pressure of public opinion gave up their seats on the old Council and the idea of becoming Honourables in future, join the reformed Council in Calcutta, there is nothing to prevent the East Bengal leaders from joining Sir ...
... huge waste of money, we cannot say. The break-up of the Congress and the "stern and relentless repression" of the Nationalist party has delivered the old Congress Conservatives from the fear of public opinion. Needless to say, no so-called Congress held under such circumstances will be representative of the people. It is the old love of striking theatrical effects addressed to an English audience as ...
... climb walls and throw stones wherever he goes! Such a principle simply means putting a premium upon lawlessness. In other countries the indiscreet use of powers by Magistrates is restrained by public opinion but in India there is no such safeguard. (Since the above was in type, the Police have undertaken to prove their statements, and the facts stated above must be taken as Pandit Bhoje Dutt's side ...
... most ordinary privileges of defence to the numerous accused and the amazing and successful defiance of High Court orders by Mr. Warburton, the police are not going the best way to convince the public opinion on this point. The facts stated amount to a gross and shameless denial of justice. We do not blame the young Maharaja for his inability to interfere in favour of the oppressed victims of police ...
... rs, accomplices, suspected accomplices and relatives continued until the very moment of the Armistice; the reprisals took more than 5000 lives. Not only Goebbels propaganda machine but also public opinion in general condemned the attempt unanimously. Tresckow, like Stauffenberg, had foreseen this reaction and said on the day after the attempt’s failure: “Now they will all fall upon us and cover ...
... Michel Winock. “All of us are living with the opinion that the past was better. In most cases this is nothing but an illusion. As nowadays we can interrogate with some precision the main currents of public opinion, we can measure the load of dissatisfaction weighing on the people, even when they become richer, live to a greater age, and acquire an amelioration of their living conditions their grandparents ...
... ral of French Equatorial Africa. But then the Panama Scandal erupted, ‘the greatest financial disaster in France for 200 years,’ rocking the country’s financial institutions and galvanizing public opinion. Ferdinand, Count de Lesseps, having successfully completed the Suez Canal in 1869, wanted to create a passage through the land mass of the Americas by digging a canal through the Panama isthmus ...
... s will easily change them. He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others. Why should he listen to threats? He must act according to the inner command and not according to public opinion. When you give yourself to the accomplishment of an unselfish aim, never expect ordinary people to praise and support you—on the contrary, they will always fight against you, hate and curse ...
... were he to accede to Pakistan, India would not take it amiss. It is clear that if the Maharaja wanted to accede to India or to Pakistan he could have done so in August 1947 itself. However, the public opinion in Jammu and Kashmir at that time was not in favour of joining Pakistan. The inner story On Aug. 24, August 1947, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, weakened by the prolonged pre-partition ...
... independent body, and this independence extended itself also to the individual members of the tribe, each of whom recognized the authority or leadership of his chief only as being the exponent of a public opinion which he himself happened to share; but he was quite at liberty to refuse to conform to the unanimous resolve of his fellow clansmen. Further, there was no regular transmission of the office of ...
... Madras that there was no rupture between Gandhiji and the Congress High Command. The AICC which met at Poona from 25 to 28 July ratified the Delhi resolution of the Working Committee. Intelligent public opinion throughout India welcomed this development. Rajaji had, of course, his own doubts about the acceptance of the Congress proposal by the British Government because he knew that the views of the senior ...
... organised, books and appreciative articles have been published, and Bharati's position as the pre-eminent poet of the modern Tamil renaissance is now, and has been for over 3 decades, a part of our public opinion, not open to question. However, it was not easy to get Bharati's works - especially the Poems - in handy form. Copyright difficulties stood long in the way of a popular issue of the Poems. ...
... 152 Disciple : When the Sanitary Committee has gone to one end of the city it may find that the other end it has left has become again as filthy as it was. Disciple : If public opinion is cultivated and the sanitary consciousness awakened then after such efforts legislation may be passed to maintain cleanliness. Sri Aurobindo : Oh yes, these things require vital energy ...
... pitifully beaten). She who did not believe in democracy, even before 1914! This was another door She found closed: All human organizations are based on: the visible fact (which is a falsehood), public opinion (another falsehood), and moral sense, which is a third falsehood! So ... 25 And with her disarming simplicity, which went straight to the heart of the matter, She asked: Indeed we need a ...
... views. Well, one of his suggestions was accepted. When the Tamilnadu Agricultural Land Ceiling Bill was referred to a Select Committee, the Select Committee was touring the State to elicit public opinion and giving personal hearing. Counouma and I went together to Cuddalore to appear before the Select Committee for both the Ashram and Auroville would be affected by the provisions of the Bill. ...
... Aurobindo: his sinister hand was seen everywhere - in the Yugantar, in Sandhya, and of course in the Bande Mataram. And how extensive were the tentacles that shot out of these "organs of public opinion"! and how uncannily they sought out converts or victims - who became critics and enemies of the bureaucracy - everywhere, even outside Bengal! And the man was so elusive, so mercurial, so ...
... A real God is God's creation, and when I worship that by action I worship Him. It is easy to propound a plausible theory but it is difficult to act in a world where you are hampered by a stupid public opinion and stereotyped notions of religion and morality. My life's mission has been to fight against all these stereotyped notions. God Almighty has strewn thorns in my way and I am ready to fight against ...
... that the American forces suffered a devastating defeat when they won a battle. Moreover, the press overstated the atrocities perpetrated in the war, stirring up anti-war sentiments and creating public opinions in favour of the pullout of the American forces from Vietnam. Under the circumstances, the U.S. government had no alternative but to withdraw its troops from the country with haste and it ultimately ...
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