Tilak founded Home
Rule League at Poona – 28 April 1916
Extract
from an address delivered by Mr. Tilak on the subject “Tenets of the New
Party”, at Calcutta on 2nd January 1907 :-
“
What the New Party wants you to do is to realize the fact that your future
rests entirely in your own hands. If you mean to be free, you can be free; if
you do not mean to be free, you will fall and be forever fallen. So many of you need not like arms; but if you have
not the power of active resistance, have you not the power of self-denial and
self- abstinence in such a way as not to assist this foreign Government to rule
over you? This is boycott and this is what is meant when we say, boycott is a
political weapon. We shall not give them assistance to collect revenue and keep
peace. We shall not assist them in fighting beyond the frontiers or outside
India with Indian blood and money. We shall not assist them in carrying on the
administration of justice. We shall have our own courts, and when time comes we
shall not pay taxes. Can you do that by your united efforts? If you can, you
are free from tomorrow.”
Source : B.N.Basu
Papers, NMML Archives
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