Indian National Evolution A Brief Survey Of The Origin And Progress Of The Indian National Congress And The Growth Of Indian Nationalism PDF Download

Excerpt from Indian National Evolution: A Brief Survey of the Origin and Progress of the Indian National Congress, and the Growth of Indian Nationalism The Indian National Congress marks an important epoch in the history of British Rule in India. Apart from the questions of reforms with which it is immediately concerned, it is engaged in a much wider and nobler task for which it has already laid a fairly solid foundation - the task of Nation building in India after the model of modern Europe. Coming in contact with Western -people and Western culture the Indian mind could not fail to expand in the direction of Western ideas and insti tutions. It is as impossible for one civilization, whether superior or ipferior, to come in touch with another civili zation without unfolding its own characteristics, as it is impossible for one vessel to throw its search-light upon another without exposing its own broad outlines to the gaze of the latter. A barbarous race may become extinct but two civilized people coming in close contact are: in spite of all their differences and conservatism bound to coalesce and act and react upon each other. The superior may dominate the inferior but cannot trans form it'altogether: while the latter, however vigorously it. May struggle to maintain its peculiar identity, is bound gradually and even unconsciously to imbibe and assimilate, either for the better or for the worse, some of the. Properties of the former. The Indian National Congress and the evolution which is slowly working its way through almost every phase of Indian life' are the natural and visible manifestation of such a contact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.