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THE FUTURE OF INDIAN POLITICS
long
co-exist.
rapidity,
Surely,
power
and with unexpected
passing into the hands of
is
A Government
the Legislature. Legislature with
it,
or
must carry
its
must provoke hopeless
deadlocks, which, as experience in the Colonies
has proved, bring about ere long Responsible
Government. And India is well on the way to Dominion status. " Ultimate Freedom under Britain's
rule
is
inevitable,"
and
is
almost
within her grasp.
The took
first
place
Reform Act
elections under the in
autumn movement
the
Non-Co-Operation
Chapter VII) was then in
1920.
of
(see
full
The
below in
swing, and in
the Calcutta Special Congress of that year,
meeting on September
New sion
Councils
was
1,
the boycott of the
carried after a hot discus-
and tumultuous uproar.
It
was
so far
many capable and well-known men, who preferred obedience to the " Congress mandate " to the openings for successful as to shut out