राष्ट्रवादाची पार्श्वभूमि
- हिंदुस्थानातील ब्रिटीश राज्य' या विषयावर लिहिताना काल HR EITTI:-
“ All the civil wars, invasions, revolutions, conquests. famines, strangely complex, rapid and destructive as the successive action in Hindustan may appear, did not go deeper than its surface. England has broken down the entire framework of Indian society, without any symptoms of reconstitution yet appearing. British steam aud science uprooted, over the whole surface of Hindustan, the union between agricultural and manufacturing industry. The small stereotype forms of social organism ( village system ) have been to the greater part dissolved, and are disappearing, not so much through the brutal interference of the British soldier, as to the working of English steam and English free trade. Those family communities were based on domestic industry, in that peculiar combination of hand-weaving, hand-spinning and hand-tilling agriculture which gave them self supporting power. English interference having placed the spinner in Lancashire and the weaver in Bengal, or sweeping away both Hindu spinner and weaver, dissolved those semi-barbarian semicivilised communities, by blowing up their economical basis and thus produced the greatest, and to speak the truth, the only social revolution ever heard of in Asia. Now sickening as it must be to human feeling to witness those myriads of industrious patriarchal and inoffensive social organisations, disorganised and dissolved into their units, thrown into a sea of woes, and their individual members losing at the same time their ancient from of civilisation, and their hereditary means of subsistence, we must not forget that these idyllic village communities, inoffensive though they may appear, had always been the solid foundation of oriental despotism, that they restrained the human mind within the
