Chapter I: Front Matter

INDIAN HOME RULE

BY
M. K. GANDHI

FIFTH EDITION
AS. 6

GANESH & Co., MADRAS

Books by C. F. Andrews

The Claim for Independence

Within or without the British Empire =Price As. 8.=

Non-Co-operation

The Whys and Wherefores =Price As. 8.=

Indians in South Africa

Helots within the British Empire =Price As. 8.=

The Drink and Opium Evil

_Miss La Molte says_: "A nation that can subjugate 300,000,000
helpless Indian people, and then turn them into drug addicts, for
the sake of revenue, is a nation, which commits a cold-blooded
atrocity unparalleled by any atrocity committed in the rage and heat
of war."

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How India can be Free

"India has no need to take the sword in order to be free: She has a
much more powerful weapon ready to her hand. If once her people
unitedly decide to be free they can be free."

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Indian Independence:

The immediate need

To be in subjection to a band of foreign rulers, if Seeley's
historical maxim is true, cannot but lead to national deterioration.
This is why the need for independence is so immediate. This is why
it cannot be postponed. The verdict of the most sober English
Historians is this, that India, without a single hand being lifted
to strike a single blow, can determine her own destiny. The sheer
weight of numbers,--three hundred and twenty millions against a few
thousands,--is so great, that if these numbers could once speak with
one mind, their will must be carried out.

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GANESH & Co., Publishers, Madras.

INDIAN HOME RULE

BY
M. K. GANDHI

Reprinted with a new foreword by the author

FIFTH EDITION

GANESH & Co., MADRAS
1922

MADRAS:
THE MODERN PRINTING WORKS, MOUNT ROAD.

NOTE

The doctrine of violence is more widely believed in than is generally realised. The votaries of violence can be divided into two classes. Some, a small and dwindling class, believe in it and are prepared to act according to their faith. Others, a very large class always, and now, after bitter experiences of the failure of constitutional agitation, larger than ever, believe in violence, but that belief does not lead them to action. It disables them from work on any basis other than force. The belief in violence serves to dissuade them from all other kinds of work or sacrifice. In both cases the evil is great.

There can be no reconstruction or hope for this land of ours, unless we eradicate the worship of force in all its forms, and establish work on a basis other than violence. A refutation of the doctrine of violence is, in the present situation of the affairs of our country, more necessary than ever.

To this end, nothing better can be conceived than the publication and wide distribution of Mr. Gandhi's famous book.

It was extremely patriotic of Messrs. Ganesh and Company to have readily agreed to undertake the work when they were approached with the request.

Satyagrah Sabha, }
Madras, } C. RAJAGOPALACHAR.
6-6-19. }