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Freedom
Through Disobedience

 

BY
C. R. DAS

 

ARKA PUBLISHING HOUSE,
GEORGE TOWN, MADRAS

1922

IMPERIAL BOOK DEPOT,
DELHI.

 

 

PRINTED AT THE MANORANJINI PRESS,
Sowcarpet, MADRAS.

 

 

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FREEDOM THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE

The following is the full text of the Presidential Address of DesabhandhuC. R. Das at the thirty-seventh session of the Indian National Congressheld at Gaya on 26th December 1922:—

Sisters and Brothers,—

As I stand before you to-day, a sense of overwhelming loss overtakes me,and I can scarce give expression to what is uppermost in the minds of alland everyone of us. After a memorable battle which he gave to theBureaucracy, Mahatma Gandhi has been seized and cast into prison; and weshall not have his guidance in the proceedings of the Congress this year.But there is inspiration for all of us in the last stand which he made inthe citadel of the enemy, in the last defiance which he hurled at theagents of the Bureaucracy. To read a story equal in pathos, in dignity,and in sublimity you have to go back over two thousand years, when Jesusof Nazareth, “as one that perverted the people” stood to take his trialbefore a foreign tribunal.

[Pg 2]“And Jesus stood before the Governor: and the Governor asked him saying,Art thou the king of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayëst.

“And when he has accused of the chief priests and elders, he answerednothing.

“Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witnessagainst thee?

“And he answered him too never a word; insomuch that the Governormarvelled greatly.”

Mahatma Gandhi took a different course. He admitted that he was guilty,and he pointed out to the public Prosecutor, that his guilt was greaterthan he, the Prosecutor, had alleged; but he maintained that if he hadoffended agai

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