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MANIFESTO
OF
THE
HINDUSTAN
SOCIALIST
REPUBLICAN
ASSOCIATION*
[
Prepared
by
B.C.
Vohra,
it
was
widely
distributed
at
the
time
of
the
Lahore
Session
of
the
Congress
in
1929.]
“The
food
on
which
the
tender
plant
of
liberty
thrives
is
the
blood
of
the
martyr.”
For
decades
this
life
blood
to
the
plant
of
India’s
liberty
is
being
supplied
by
revolutionaries.
There
are
few
to
question
the
magnanimity
of
the
noble
ideals
they
cherish
and
the
grand
sacrifices
they
have
offered,
but
their
normal
activities
being
mostly
secret
the
country
is in
dark
as to
their
present
policy
and
intentions.
This
has
necessitated
the
Hindustan
Socialist
Republican
Association
to
issue
this
manifesto.
This
association
stands
for
revolution
in
India
in
order
to
liberate
her
from
foreign
domination
by
means
of
organised
armed
rebellion.
Open
rebellion
by a
subject
people
must
always
in
the
nature
of
things
be
preceded
by
secret
propaganda
and
secret
propaganda
and
secret
preparations.
Open
rebellion
by a
subject
people
must
always
in
the
nature
of
things
be
preceded
by
secret
propaganda
and
secret
preparations.
Once
a
country
enters
that
phase
the
task
of an
alien
government
becomes
impossible.
It
might
linger
on
for a
number
of
years
but
its
fate
is
sealed.
Human
nature,
with
all
its
prejudices
and
conservatism,
has a
sort
of
instinctive
dread
for
revolution.
Upheavals
have
always
been
a
terror
to
holders
of
power
and
privilege.
Revolution
is a
phenomenon
which
nature
loves
and
without
which
there
can
be no
progress
either
in
nature
or in
human
affairs.
Revolution
is a
phenomenon
which
nature
loves
and
without
which
there
can
be no
progress
either
in
nature
or in
human
affairs.
Revolution
is
certainly
not
unthinking,
brutal
campaign
of
murder
and
incendiarism;
it is
not a
few
bombs
thrown
here
and a
few
shots
fired
there;
neither
it is
a
movement
to
destroy
all
ramnants
of
civilisation
and
blow
to
pieces
time
honoured
principles
of
justice
and
equity.
Revolution
is
not a
philosophy
of
despair
or a
creed
of
desperadoes.
Revolution
may
be
anti-God
but
is
certainly
not
anti-Man.
It is
a
vital,
living
force
which
is
indicative
of
eternal
conflict
between
the
old
and
the
new,
between
life
and
living
death,
between
life
and
living
death,
between
light
and
darkness.
There
is no
concord,
no
symphony,
no
rhythm
without
revolution.
‘The
music
of
the
spheres’
of
which
poets
have
sung,
would
remain
an
unreality
if a
ceaseless
revolution
were
to be
eliminated
from
the
space.
Revolution
is
Law,
Revolution
is
Order
and
Revolution
is
the
Truth.
The
youths
of
our
nation
have
realised
this
truth.
They
have
learnt
painfully
the
lesson
that
without
revolution
there
is no
possibility
of
enthroning
order,
law
and
love
in
place
of
chaos
and
legal
vandalism
and
hatred
which
are
reigning
supreme
today.
Let
no
one,
in
this
blessed
land
of
ours,
run
with
the
idea
that
the
youths
are
irresponsible.
They
know
where
they
stand.
None
knows
better
than
their
own
selves,
that
their
path
is
not
strewn
with
roses.
Form
time
to
time
they
have
paid
a
fairly
decent
price
for
their
ideals.
It
does
not,
therefore,
lie
in
the
mouth
of
anybody
to
say
that
youthful
impetuosity
has
feasted
upon
platitudes.
It is
no
good
to
hurl
denunciatory
epithets
at
our
ideology.
It is
enough
to
know
that
our
ideas
are
sufficiently
active
and
powerful
to
drive
us on
aye
even
to
gallows.
It
has
become
a
fashion
these
days
to
indulge
in
wild
and
meaningless
talk
of
non-violence.
Mahatma
Gandhi
is
great
and
we
mean
no
disrespect
to
him
if we
express
our
emphatic
disapproval
of
the
methods
advocated
by
him
for
our
country’s
emancipation.
We
would
be
ungrateful
to
him
if we
do
not
salute
him
for
the
immense
awakening
that
has
been
brought
about
be
his
non-cooperation
movement
in
the
country.
But
to us
the
Mahatma
is an
impossible
visionary.
Non-violence
may
be a
noble
ideal,
but
is a
thing
of
the
morrow.
We
can,
situated
as we
are,
never
hope
to
win
our
freedom
by
mere
nonviolence.
The
world
is
armed
to
the
very
teeth.
And
the
world
is
too
much
with
us.
All
talk
of
peace
may
be
sincere,
but
such
false
ideology.
What
logic,
we
ask,
is
there
in
asking
the
country
to
traverse
a
non-violent
path
when
the
world
atmosphere
is
surcharged
with
violence
and
exploitation
of
the
weak?
We
declare
with
all
the
emphasis
we
can
command
that
the
youths
of
the
nation
cannot
be
lured
by
such
midsummer
night’s
dreams.
We
believe
in
violence,
not
as an
end
itself
but
as a
means
to a
noble
end.
And
the
votaries
of
non-violence,
as
also
the
advocates
of
caution
and
circumspection,
will
readily
grant
this
much
at
least
that
we
know
how
to
suffer
for
and
to
act
upto
our
convictions.
Shall
we
here
recount
all
those
sacrifices
which
our
comrades
have
offered
at
the
altar
of
our
common
Mother?
Many
a
heart-rending
and
soul-stirring
scene
has
been
enacted
inside
the
four
walls
of
His
Majesty’s
prison.
We
have
been
taken
to
task
for
our
terroristic
policy.
Our
answer
is
that
terrorism
is
never
the
object
of
revolutionaries,
nor
do
they
believe
that
terrorism
alone
can
bring
independence.
No
doubt
the
revolutionaries
think,
and
rightly,
that
it is
only
by
resorting
to
terrorism
alone
that
they
can
find
a
most
effective
means
of
retaliation.
The
British
government
exists,
because
the
Britishers
have
been
successful
in
terrorising
the
whole
of
India.
How
are
we to
meet
this
official
terrorism?
Only
counter-terrorism
on
the
part
of
revolutionaries
can
checkmate
effectively
this
bureaucratic
bullying.
A
feeling
of
utter
helplessness
pervades
society.
How
can
we
overcome
this
fatal
despondency?
It is
only
by
infusing
a
real
spirit
of
sacrifice
that
lost
self-confidence
can
be
restored.
Terrorism
has
its
international
aspect
also.
England’s
enemies,
which
are
many,
are
drawn
towards
us by
effective
demonstration
of
our
strength.
That
in
itself
is a
great
advantage.
Indian
is
writhing
under
the
yoke
of
imperialism.
Her
teeming
millions
are
today
a
helpless
prey
to
poverty
and
ignorance.
Foreign
domination
and
economic
exploitation
have
unmanned
the
vast
majority
of
the
people
who
constitute
the
workers
and
peasants
of
India.
The
position
of
the
Indian
proletariat
is,
today,
extremely
critical.
It
has a
double
danger
to
face.
It
has
to
bear
to
onslaught
of
foreign
capital
on
the
other.
The
latter
is
showing
a
progressive
tendency
to
joint
forces
with
the
former.
The
leaning
of
certain
politicians
in
favour
of
dominion
status
shows
clearly
which
way
the
wind
blows.
Indian
capital
is
preparing
to
betray
the
masses
into
the
hands
of
foreign
capitalism
and
receive
as a
price
of
this
betrayal,
a
little
share
in
the
government
of
the
country.
The
hope
of
the
proletariat
is,
therefore,
now
centred
on
socialism
which
alone
can
lead
to
the
establishment
of
complete
independence
and
the
removal
of
all
social
distinction
and
privileges.
The
future
of
India
rests
with
the
youths.
They
are
the
salt
of
the
earth.
Their
promptness
to
suffer,
their
daring
courage
and
their
radiant
sacrifice
prove
that
India’s
future
in
their
hands
is
perfectly
safe.
In a
moment
of
realisation
the
late
Deshbandhu
Dass
said:
“The
youths
are
at
once
the
hope
and
glory
of
the
Motherland.
Theirs
is
the
inspiration
behind
the
movement.
Theirs
is
the
sacrifice.
Theirs
is
the
victory.
They
are
torch-bearers
on
the
road
to
freedom.
They
are
the
pilgrims
on
the
road
to
liberty.”
Youths,
ye
soldiers
of
the
Indians
Republic,
fall
in:
do
not
stand
easy,
do
not
let
your
knees
tremble.
Shake
off
the
paralysing
effects
of
long
lethargy.
Yours
is a
noble
mission.
Go
out
into
every
nook
and
corner
of
the
country
and
prepare
the
ground
for
future
revolution
which
is
sure
to
come.
Respond
to
the
clarion
call
of
duty.
Do
not
vegetable.
Grow!
Every
minute
of
your
life
you
must
think
of
devising
means
of
that
this
your
ancient
land
may
arise
with
flaming
eyes
and
fierce
yawn.
Sow
the
seeds
of
disgust
and
hatred
agains
British
imperialism
in
the
fertile
minds
of
your
fellow
youths.
And
the
seeds
shall
sprout
and
there
shall
grow
a
jungle
of
sturdy
trees,
because
you
shall
water
the
seeds
with
your
warm
blood.
Then
a
grim
and
terrible
earthquake
having
a
universally
destructive
potentiality
shall
inevitably
come
along
with
portentous
rumblings,
and
this
edifice
of
imperialism
will
crash
and
crumble
to
dust,
and
great
shall
be
the
fall
therefore.
And
then,
and
not
till
then,
a new
Indian
nation
shall
arise
and
surprise
humanity
with
the
splendour
and
glory,
all
its
own.
The
wise
and
the
mighty
shall
be
bewildered
by
the
simple
and
the
weak.
Individual
liberty
shall
be
safe.
The
sovereignty
of
the
proletariat
shall
be
recognised.
We
court
the
advent
of
such
revolution.
Long
Live
Revolution!
Kartar
Singh,
President.
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