YOUNG INDIA

AN INTERPRETATION AND A HISTORY OF THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT FROM WITHIN LAJPAT RAI FOREWORD BY J. T. SUNDERLAND ILLUSTRATED

“The people of India are capable of administering their own affairs and the municipal feeling is deep rooted in them. The village communities, each of which is a little republic, are the most abiding of Indian institutions.”

(Lord Lawrence, once Viceroy and Governor-General of British India).

NEW YORK B. W. HUEBSCH 1917 Copyright, 1916, by B. W. HUEBSCH First edition, August, 1916 Second edition, April, 1917 Printed in U. S. A.

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAREST FRIEND THE LATE LAMENTED DWARKA DASS, M. A. OF THE PUNJAB WHO DIED OF A BROKEN HEART, AT THE COLLAPSE OF PUBLIC LIFE IN HIS NATIVE PROVINCE, (OCTOBER 1912) AS AN HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO HIS UNCOMPROMISING ATTITUDE TOWARDS PUBLIC LIFE, HIS LOFTY PRINCIPLES, AND HIS NOBLE ADVOCACY OF THEM