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MANIFESTO
OF
NAUJAWAN
BHARAT
SABHA,
PUNJAB
[Written
by
Bhagawati
Charan
Vohra,
dated
6-4-1928.
The
Sabha
was
an
open
organisation
of
the
party.]
YOUNG
COMRADES,
Our
country
is
passing
through
a
chaos.
There
is
mutual
distrust
and
despair
prevailing
everywhere.
The
great
leaders
have
lost
faith
in
the
cause
and
most
of
them
no
more
enjoy
the
confidence
of
the
masses.
There
is no
programme
and
no
enthusiasm
among
the
‘champions’
of
Indian
independence.
There
is
chaos
everywhere.
But
chaos
is
inevitable
and a
necessary
phase
in
the
course
of
making
of a
nation.
It is
during
such
critical
periods
that
the
sincerity
of
the
workers
is
tested,
their
character
built,
real
programme
formed,
and
then,
with
a new
spirit,
new,
hopes,
new
faith
and
enthusiasm,
the
work
is
started.
Hence
there
is
nothing
to be
disgusted
of.
We
are,
however,
very
fortunate
to
find
ourselves
on
the
threshold
of a
new
era.
We no
more
hear
the
news
of
reaching
chaos
that
used
to be
sung
vastly
in
praise
of
the
British
bureaucracy.
The
historic
question
“Would
you
be
governed
by
sword
or
pen”,
no
more
lies
unanswered.
Those
who
put
that
question
to us
have
themselves
answered
it.
In
the
words
of
Lord
Birkenhead,
“With
the
sword
we
won
India
and
with
the
sword
we
shall
retain
it.”
Thanks
to
this
candour
everything
is
clear
now.
After
remembering
Jallianwala
and
Manawala
outrages
it
looks
absurd
to
quote
that
“A
good
government
cannot
be a
substitute
for
self-government.”
It is
self-evident.
A
word
about
the
blessings
of
the
British
rule
in
India.
Is it
necessary
to
quote
the
whole
volumes
of
Romesh
Chandra
Dutt,
William
Digby
and
Dadabhai
Naoroji
in
evidence
to
prove
the
decline
and
ruin
of
Indian
industries?
Does
if
require
any
authorities
to
prove
that
India,
with
the
richest
soil
and
mine,
is
today
one
of
the
poorest,
that
India
which
could
be
proud
of so
glorious
a
civilisations,
is
today
the
most
backward
country
with
only
5%
literacy?
Do
not
the
people
know
that
India
has
to
pay
the
largest
toll
of
human
life
with
the
highest
child
death
rate
in
the
world?
The
epidemics
like
plague,
cholera,
influenza
and
such
other
diseases
are
becoming
common
day
by
day.
Is it
not
disgraceful
for
us to
hear
again
and
again
that
we
are
not
fit
for
self-government?
Is it
not
really
degrading
for
us,
with
Guru
Govind
Singh,
Shivaji
and
Hari
Singh
as
our
heroes;
to be
told
that
we
are
incapable
of
defending
ourselves?
Alas,
we
have
done
little
to
prove
the
contrary.
Did
we
not
see
our
trade
and
commerce
being
crushed
in
its
very
infancy
in
the
first
effort
of
Guru
Nanak
steamship
co-started
by
Baba
Gurdit
Singh
in
1914;
the
inhuman
treatment
meted
out
to
them,
far
away
in
Canada,
on
the
way
and
finally,
the
bloody
reception
of
those
despairing,
broken-hearted
passengers
with
valleys
of
shots
at
Bajbaj,
and
what
not?
Did
we
not
see
all
this?
In
India,
where
for
the
honour
of
one
Dropadi,
the
great
Mahabharat
was
fought,
dozens
of
them
were
ravaged
in
1919.
They
were
spit
at,
in
their
naked
faces.
Did
we
not
see
all
this?
Yet,
we
are
content
with
the
existing
order
of
affairs.
Is
this
life
worth
living?
Does
it
require
any
revelation
any
revelation
now
to
make
us
realise
that
we
are
enslaved
and
must
be
free?
Shall
we
wait
for
an
uncertain
sage
to
make
us
feel
that
we
are
an
oppressed
people?
Shall
we
expectantly
wait
for
divine
help
or
some
miracle
to
deliver
us
from
bondage?
Do we
not
know
the
fundamental
principles
of
liberty?
“Those
who
want
to be
free,
must
themselves
strike
the
blow.”
Young
men,
awake,
arise;
we
have
slept
too
long!
We
have
appealed
to
the
young
only.
Because
the
young
bear
the
most
inhuman
tortures
smilingly
and
face
death
without
hesitation.
Because
the
young
bear
the
most
inhuman
tortures
smilingly
and
face
death
without
hesitation.
Because
the
whole
history
of
human
progress
is
written
with
the
blood
of
young
men
and
young
women.
And
because
the
reforms
are
ever
made
by
the
vigour,
courage,
self-sacrifice
and
emotional
conviction
of
the
young
men
who
do
not
know
enough
to be
afraid
and
who
feel
much
more
than
they
think.
Were
it
not
the
young
men
of
Japan
who
come
forth
in
hundreds
to
throw
themselves
in
the
ditches
to
make
a dry
path
to
Port
Arthur?
And
Japan
is
today
one
of
the
foremost
nations
in
the
world.
Were
it
not
the
young
Polish
people
who
fought
again
and
again
and
failed,
but
fought
again
heroically
throughout
the
last
century?
And
today
we
see a
free
Poland.
Who
freed
Italy
from
the
Austrian
yoke?
Young
Italy.
Do
you
know
the
wonders
worked
by
the
Young
Turks?
Do
you
not
daily
read
what
the
young
Chinese
are
doing?
Were
it
not
the
young
Russians
who
scarified
their
lives
for
Russians
emancipation?
Throughout
the
last
century
hundreds
and
thousands
of
them
were
exiled
to
Siberia
for
the
mere
distribution
of
socialist
pamphlets
or,
like
Dostoyevsky,
for
merely
belonging
to
socialist
debating
society.
Again
and
again
they
faced
the
storm
of
oppression.
But
they
did
not
lose
the
courage.
It
were
they,
the
young
only,
who
fought.
And
everywhere
the
young
can
fight
without
hope,
without
fear
and
without
hesitation.
And
we
find
today
in
the
great
Russia,
the
emancipation
of
the
world.
While,
we
Indians,
what
are
we
doing?
A
branch
of
peepal
tree
is
cut
and
religious
feelings
of
the
Hindus
are
injured.
A
corner
of a
paper
idol,
tazia,
of
the
idol-breaker
Mohammedans
is
broken,
and
‘Allah’
gets
enraged,
who
cannot
be
satisfied
with
anything
less
than
the
blood
of
the
infidel
Hindus.
Man
ought
to be
attached
more
importance
that
the
animals
and,
yet,
here
in
India,
they
break
each
other’s
heads
in
the
name
of
‘sacred
animals’.
Our
vision
is
circumscribed
by….
*
thinks
in
terms
of
internationalism.
There
are
many
others
among
us
who
hide
their
lethargy
under
the
garb
of
internationalism.
Asked
to
serve
their
country
they
reply:
“Oh
Sirs,
we
are
cosmopolitans
and
believe
in
universal
brotherhood.
Let
us
not
quarrel
with
the
British.
They
are
our
brothers.”
A
good
idea,
a
beautiful
phrase.
But
they
miss
its
implication.
The
doctrine
of
universal
brotherhood
demands
that
the
exploitation
of
man
by
man
and
nation
be
nation
must
be
rendered
impossible.
Equal
opportunity
to
all
without
any
sort
of
distinction.
But
British
rule
in
India
is a
direct
negation
of
all
these,
and
we
shall
have
nothing
to do
with
it.
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