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E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Asad Razzaki, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
THE CASE
FOR
INDIA
THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY ANNIE BESANT AT THE THIRTY-SECOND INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS HELD AT CALCUTTA 26TH DECEMBER 1917
Table of Contents
Presidential Address
GONE TO THE PEACE.
CHAPTER I.
PRE-WAR MILITARY EXPENDITURE.
CHAPTER II.
CAUSES OF THE NEW SPIRIT IN INDIA.
THE AWAKENING OF ASIA.
DISCUSSIONS ABROAD ON ALIEN RULE AND IMPERIAL RECONSTRUCTION.
LOSS OF BELIEF IN THE SUPERIORITY OF WHITE RACES
THE AWAKENING OF THE MERCHANTS.
THE AWAKENING OF INDIAN WOMANHOOD.
THE AWAKENING OF THE MASSES.
CHAPTER III.
WHY INDIA DEMANDS HOME RULE.
I. THE VITAL REASON.
What is a Nation?
The Cry for Self-Rule.
Stunting the Race.
India's Rights.
II. THE SECONDARY REASONS.
Tests of Efficiency.
A Change of System Needed.
Non-Official Anglo-Indians.
The Re-action on England.
The First Test Applied.
Give Indians a Chance.
The Other Tests Applied.
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