HUMAN 1B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-20: Hind Swaraj Or Indian Home Rule
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The argument is that india is in need of a systematic transformation- political, economic, The condition of england at present is pitiable. I pray to god that india may never be in that plight. That which you consider to be the mother of parliaments is like a sterile woman and a prostitute . Both these are harsh terms, but exactly fit the case. That parliament has not yet, of its own accord, done a single good thing. Hence i have compared it to a sterile woman . Parliament is such that, without outside pressure, it can do nothing. It is like a prostitute because it is under the control of ministers who change from time to time. Today it is under mr. asquith, tomorrow it may be under mr. balfour. (29) Now, anybody writes and prints anything he likes and poisons people"s minds. (35)
