India In Bondage: Her Right to Freedom - PAPERBACK

About The Book : This England we honor and love. This is the England that the world honors, and that has made the name of Britain great. If this England had been in power, India would never have been conquered and reduced to bondage ; but would have been dealt with justly, befriended, and helped to rise in freedom to an influential place in the world like that of Japan. I have written every word of this book in earnest sympathy with what we believe the principles of this true and nobler England. There is much reason to believe that this England, if in power today, by offering to the Indian people promptly, generously, courageously, honestly, in absolute good faith, freedom and self government under “Dominion Status” like that of Canada and Australia, could retain India as a contented (and, of course, immensely important) member of the British Empire. Unfortunately, there is another England. Unwilling as one may be to confess it, or to have it so, there is an England whose ideals and political principles are almost the exact opposite of those just described. It is the England which fought against Magna Charta; which refused to give justice and freedom to the American Colonies in 1776; which has constantly allied itself with militarism and imperialism.Thrusts into prison without trial Indian leaders who agitate for freedom, and gives no assurance of any real intention of ever loosening its iron grip upon what King George calls “My Indian Empire. In author judgment, this England, unless held in check, will create irreparable hostility between the Indian people and Great Britain, and thus make India a smouldering volcano of unrest, certain in no distant day to burst into an eruption of the most dangerous possible character. About The Author : Jabez Thomas Sunderland (1842 –1936) was a minister of the Unitarian church in the United States and an outspoken activist for human rights and anti-imperialism.