"Sri Seshadri has cited the advice which Sarat Chandra Chatterjee had tendered to his people. He had written as follows in October, 1926: “Hindustan is the land of the Hindus. It is, therefore, the duty of the Hindus alone to liberate it from the shackles of foreign domination. Muslims are sitting with their faces turned towards Arabia or Turkey. Their heart is not in the land of Hindustan. But when it is not there, it is no use lamenting over it. We need not be unnerved by counting the heads of Muslims. Numbers are not the supreme truth in the world… In freedom’s battle in any country, do all the people of that country take part? When the Americans fought for their freedom, more than half the people of that country were with the British. In the Irish freedom struggle, how many were actually involved in it?… Right or wrong is not decided by the counting of heads. It is decided by the intensity of tapasya or the single-minded devotion to the cause. The problem before the Hindus is not to devise ways and means of bringing about an artificial unity. The problem before them in how to organise themselves.”"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Sarat Chandra Chatterjee cited by H.V. Sheshadri, quoted from S.R. Goel, Muslim Separatism - Causes and Consequences Ch.12
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sarat_Chandra_Chattopadhyay
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
, alternatively spelt as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee (15 September 1876 – 16 January 1938), was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century. Most of his works deal with the lifestyle, tragedy and struggle of the village people and the contemporary social practices that prevailed in . He remains the most popular, translated, adapted, and plagiarized Indian author of all time.
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay →
Related Quotes
"Love knows everything."
"Love that is not madness is not love."
"If we go by the lessons of history we have to accept that the goal of Hindu-Muslim unity is a mirage. When Muslims fi…"
"They [Muslims] were not satisfied merely with looting, they destroyed temples, they demolished idols, they raped wome…"
"In a world that often tries to divide us, literature remains one of the last sacred spaces where we can live inside e…"
"Women are often harder on women than men are. They step into the shoes of men and adopt their own strategies to oppre…"
"I have also been writing about how the media often misrepresents Muslims. I once saw a misleading photo of an elderly…"
"Our culture teaches us, whether it be Hindu or Muslim or Christian or whether it may be Kannadiga or Tamil or Malayal…"
"My stories are about women – how religion, society, and politics demand unquestioning obedience from them, and in doi…"
"Isn’t he a man? Whether he is there, not there, whether he carries responsibilities, whether he neglects them, who's …"