Thread by @vjgtweets

Aurobindo-- the Loyalist Gospel (1907)

"In this country, however, is a class of wise men who regard the rule of British bureaucracy as a dispensation of Providence...They preach therefore a gospel of faith in the foreigner, distrust of our own countrymen...

"and acquiescence in alien rule as a godsend from on high and an indispensable condition for peace and prosperity. Even those whose hearts rebel against a doctrine to servile, are intellectually so dominated by it..."

"that they cannot embrace Nationalism with their whole heart and try to arrive at a compromise between subjection and independence,-- a half way house between life and death"

"The Moderates are a hybrid species, emotionally Nationalist, intellectually Loyalist. It is owing to this double nature that their delusions acquire an infinite power for mischief"

The three postulates of the Loyalist Gospel:

First: "disunion and weakness are ingrained characteristics of the Indian people and an outside power is necessary in order to arbitrate, to keep peace and to protect the country,.."

Second: "There must be an entire leveling down and sweeping away of all differences... before any resistance to foreign domination can be attempted"

Third: "healthy development is possible under foreign domination and this healthy development must be first effected before we can dream of freedom or even of becoming a nation"

"The Nationalist contention is that all these three postulates are monuments of political unreason and have no firm foundation either in historical experience or in the facts we see around us or in the nature of things"