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Swadeshi Movement THE SWADESHI MOVEMENT A SYMPOSIUM. VIEWS OF REPRESENTATIVE INDIANS AND ANGLO-INDIANS. SECOND EDITION Revised and Enlarged. PRICE, Re. 1-4. PUBLISHED BY G. A. NATESAN & CO., MADEAS. Antiquarian Bookseller 49. \ tnkatacbaja Mndaly Si CMC 01. vi. MADRAS -7. f/r /It? PUBLISHBES' NOTE. T^HIS is a collection of Essays and Speeches on the Swadeshi movement by eminent Indian and Anglo-Indian gentlemen. To make the collection fully representative, comprehensive and up-to-date, the publishers have included numerous papers and extracts from notable utterances during the past ten years by official and non-official gentlemen in Bengal, Bombay, Madras, United Provinces and the Punjab. Authoritative official views on the movement are embodied in the speeches of Lord Minto, Lord Carmichael, Sir A. Lawley, Sir Andrew Fraser and Sir H. T. White. SECOND EDITION. INDUSTRIAL INDIA BY MR. GLYN BARLOW, M.A. CONTENTS. 1. Patriotism in Trade. 2. Co-operation. 3. Industrial Exhibitions. 4. The Inquiring Mind. 5. Investigation, 6. Indian Art. 7. Indian Stores, 8. India's Customers 9. Turning the Corner. 10. Conclusion. SECOND EDITION " Re, 1. To Subscribers ofiJie Indian Review," As, 12, SELECT PRESS OPINIONS. " The Madras Mail." Throughout the book there is a cheery note of optimism which ought to be encouraging to those who are exerting themselves to bring about improvements. " The Madras Times." This little book is well written, v/ell edited and well published, and we can safely recommend our Indian friends to read, mark and inward- ly digest its contents. "The Daily Post," Bangalore. The book is an eminently readable one, and if it does not prove useful that will not be due to the fault of the writer. 'J* The Indian Spectator." Every ycung man in India ought to read Mr. Glyn Barlow's book. ft. A. Natesau & Co., Sunkurama Chetty Stleet, Mad**** CONTENTS. PAGE Dadabhai Naoroji ... ... ... 1 H. H. The Gaekwar of Baroda ... ... 2 The Hon. Mr. G. K. Gokhale ... ... 9 The Hon. Dr. Sir Kash Behari Ghose ... 31 Sir Yifcaldas Damodar Thackorsey ... ... 35 The Hon. Md. Yusuf Khan Bahadur... ... 38 Mrs. Annie Besanfc ... ... ... 43 Eajah Peary Mohun Mookerjee ... ... 48 Sister Nivedita ... ... ... 50 Mr. Lala Lajapafc Eai ... ... ... 61 Dewan Bahadur K. Krishnaswamy Eow ... 69 The Hon. Mr. Harikishen Lai ... ... 72 The Hon. Babu Surendranath Bannerjea ... 75 Kai Babadur Lala Baij Nath ... ... 82 Dewan Babadur Eaghunath Eow ... ... 89 Eomesh Chunder Dutt, C.I.E., I.C.S. ... 91 Sir Ashutosh Chaudhuri, Bar-at-Law ... 94 The Hon. Mr. Goculdaa Parekh ... ... 101 The Hon. Sir Dinshaw Edulji Wacha ... 107 Hon. Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya ... 114 Mr. G. Subramania Aiyar, C.S.I. ... ... 118 Mr. Aswini Kumar Datta ... ... 124 The Hon. Mr. V. Krishnaswamy Iyer ... 130 The Hon. Babu. Amvica Charan Muzumdar ... 133 Mr. Myron H. Phelps ... ... ... 138 Mr. M. K. Gandhi ... ... ... 160 Mr. Glyn Barlow, M.A. ... ... ... 169 Lord Carmichael ... ... ... 179 The Hon. Sir Fazulbhoy Currimbhoy Ebrahim ... 180 CONTENTS. PAGE The Hon. Mr. M. B. Dadabhoy, C.I.E. ... 180 Sir E. N. Mookerjee ... ... ... 183 H. H. The Maharaja of Dharbhangha ... 185 Prof. Eadhakumud Mookerjee, M.A.... ... 186 Eev. H. Fairbank ... ... ... 187 Dewan Bahadur Ambalul S. Desai ... ... 188 Mr. Harry Ormerod ... ... ... 193 The Hon. Sir P. S. Sivaswami Iyer ... ... 196 Mr. G. S. Arundale, M.A., LL.B. ... ... 198 Sir Charles Elliot, K.C.M.G. ... ... 203 Mr. David Gostling ... ... ... 206 Rajah Prithwipal Singh ... ... ... 211 Eai Bahadur P. Anandacharlu, C.I.E. ... 221 Sir E. C. Buck, KG S.I. ... ... ... 225 Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy ... ... 243 Mr. Mujbur Eahman ... ... ... 251 The Hon. Mr. Abdul Rasul ... ... 255 Babu Tara Prasanna Mukerji ... ... 258 Dewan Bahadur Goviridamghava Iyer ... 262 The Hon. Mr. Ghuznavi... ... ... 265 The Hon, Eao Bahadur E. N. Mudholkar ... 269 His Honor Sir Herbert T. White ... ... 272 Mr. Charles W. McKinn ... ... 273 Mr. Bal Gangadhar Tilak ... ... 275 Mr. Hemendra Prasad Ghose ... ... 277 Pandit Earnbrtj Chaudhuri ... ... 288 Mr. Mushir Hosain Kidwai, Bar-at-Law ... 289 H. E. Sir. Arthur Lawley ... ... 294 His Honor Sir A. Eraser... ... ... 296 The Eev. C. E. Andrews, M.A. ... ... 297 APPENDIX. Swadeshi in Ireland ... ... ... 300 India's Eesources ... ... ... 305 INDEX. i xii LORD MINTO ON THE SWADESHI MOVEMENT. Lord Minto, in the course of his reply to an Address of Welcome presented to him by the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce in 1906, said . It lies with you to do much to assist the amelioration of many national wants, whilst it rests with you to a great extent to further that spread of technical education which is every day becoming more necessary, whilst the 'control and direction of the Swadeshi movement on ' sound lines may well afford your Society ample opportunity for consideration. A devotion to the marvellous resources of this great country ivhich are so open to a Society such as yours will, I feel sure, afford you many opportunities of furthering that commercial welfare upon which the prosperity of all countries so largely depends. SECOND EDITION. Essays on Indian Economics BY THE LATE MAHADEV GOVIND EANADE. : the CONTENTS Indian Political Economy ; Re- in India Netherlands organisation of Eeal Credit ; Present State of India and Culture System ; Indian of the Manufacture and Outlook same ; Indian Foreign Emigration; Iron Industry Pioneer Attempts; Indus- trial Conference ; Twenty Year?' Review of Census Statistics; Local Government in England and India; Emancipation of Serfs in Russia; Prussian Land Legis- lation the Bill the of and Bengal Tenancy ; Law Land Sale in British India. " Rs. 2. To Subscribers of the Indian Review," Re. I-S. SELECT OPINIONS. India. Indispensable upon the shelves of every student of Indian Politics. The Political Science Quarterly. The author not only has a complete command of English but uncovers with great skill the mistakes made by the British in applying the maxims of English Political Economy to Indian conditions. G. A. Natesan & Co., Sunkurama Chetfcy Street, Madras THE SWADESHI MOVEMENT. A SYMPOSIUM. 1. DADABHAI NAOROJI.* " WADESHI is not a thing of to-day. It has existed in Bombay as far as I know for many years past. I am a free-trader and I am a Member in the Executive Committee of the Cobden Club for " " 20 year?, and yet I say that Swadeshi is a forced necessity for India in its unnatural economic muddle. As long as the economic condition remains unnatural and impoverishing, by the necessity of supplying every year some Bs. 20,00,00,000 for the salary, pensions, &c., of the children of a foreign country at the expense and impoverishment of the children of India, to talk of apply- ing economic laws to the condition of India is adding insult to injury. I have said so much about this o ver and over again that I would not say more about it here I refer to my book. I ask any Englishman whether English- men would submit to this unnatural economic muddle of India for a single day in England, leave alone 150 years ? No, never. No, Ladies and Gentlemen, England will never to it. It is, what I have already quoted in submit " Mr. Morley's words, it is the meddling wrongly with economic things that is going to the very life, to the very heart, to the very core of our national existence." * From the Calcutta Congress Presidential Address. 2 THE SWADESHI MOVEMENT. * 2. H. H. THE GAEKWAR OF BARODA The triumph of machinery has been the triumph of our age : the victory of steam and electricity will always be memorable among the decisive battles of the world. The rise of power-looms, for instance, has been stealing a march over the hand-loom workers, and the numbers employed in cotton weaving in India have declined by 23 per cent., even within the last decade. Even the ginning and the pressing of cotton has so extensively participated in the use of improved machinery that its hand workers have dwindled by fully 86 per cent. And yet it is this textile industry itself which shows how, with intelligent adaptation to the improved methods of art, our Indian industries can compete with the manufactures of Europe. The Bombay mills give daily employment to about 1,70,000 factory operatives, while so many as 30,000 more are maintained by the ginning presses. Some forty years ago we had only 13 cotton mills in all India. The number rose to 47 in 1876, to 95 in 1886, to 155 in 1895, and to in the number of our cotton mills 203 1904 ; and to-day is still larger. We had less than 4,000 power-looms forty in years ago : the number was over 47,000 1904. We had less than 3,00,000 spindles 40 years ago: the number exceeded five millions in 1904. These are insignificant figures compared with the huge cotton industry of Lanca- that we have made shire ; but they show steady progress, and that we may fairly hope to make greater progress in the future if we are true to our aims and our own inter- ests. Our annual produce of yarn is nearly six hundred 'Prom the Inaugural address to the Industrial Conference, held at Calcutta, 1906. H. H. THE GAEKWAR OP BARODA. it is to note that Million Ibs. in weight ; and interesting out of this total outturn about 30 per cent, is used mostly by our hand-loom weavers. Gentlemen, it is with a legitimate pride that the Indian /patriot marks this silent progress in the mill and hand- iloom industries of India, which, next to agriculture, are ;the largest industries in this land. New mills have been started in Ahmedabad and Bombay within the last two years, largely as a result of the present Swadeshi move- ment.
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